Beatrice Van


Beatrice Van was an American silent film actress. She was also a screenwriter for both silent and sound films.

Biography

Beatrice was born to Joseph and Beatrice Abbott in Omaha, Nebraska; she had an older sister, Genevieve. She grew up in Nebraska and Oklahoma, where she was educated in a convent. Beatrice's first marriage was to Cornelius Vander-Pluym; they had one child together, Kreigh Vander-Pluym, in 1912. The pair eventually divorced in 1915.
She was a leading woman at Universal for a time in the 1910s, and later worked as a scenarist for FBO. Beatrice married writer-actor James Gruen in 1927, and later, an Australian national, Charles Collman.

Filmography

Actress

The Saint and the Singer One of the Finest Such a Villain The Hills of Silence The Awakening Lost by a Hair The Barnstormers This Is the Life Helping Mother Her Bounty as Bessie ClayHer Life's Story as The WifeThe Senator's Lady The Vagabond Traffic in Babies Lights and Shadows The Heart of a Magdalene The Magic Mirror Changed Lives The Black Box as Ashleigh's daughterThe Nightmare of a Movie Fan The Soul of the Vase as WifeA Woman Scorned Detective Blinn The Great Ruby Mystery The Mighty Hold The Girl from His Town as Duchess of BreakwaterLove and Labor What's in a Name? Uncle Heck, by Heck! A Bully Affair When His Dough Was Cake A Friend in Need Mixed Males The End of the Road Almost a Widow The Wraith of Haddon Towers The Hills of Glory The First Quarrel Inherited Passions The Pearl of Paradise as Denise, his fiancéeTold at Twilight as The MotherHands Up! as Elinor CraigWho Was the Other Man? as Wanda BartellFlirting with Death A Devil with the Wimmin My Unmarried Wife Painted Lips as Mrs. SilverThere Goes the Bride Good Night, Paul as Rose HartleyThe Tiger Lily as Dorothy Van RensselaerThe Dangerous Talent as Mildred Shedd

Writer

A Small Town Girl Miss Jackie of the Army Molly Go Get 'Em Jilted Janet Ann's Finish Penny of Top Hill Trail Eden and Return Boy Crazy The Understudy Their First Vacation Crashin' Thru The Fast Worker Any Woman California Straight Ahead A Knight Before Christmas A Trip to Chinatown Along Came Auntie Raggedy Rose Blisters Under the Skin Beware of Widows Silk Stockings The Irresistible Lover Companionate Marriage Thanks for the Buggy Ride Finders Keepers Good Morning, Judge Sinner's Parade Modern Love No, No, Nanette Take the Heir He Loved Her Not Take 'em and Shake 'em Easy to Get Only Men Wanted Gigolettes