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Frances Reid
Date of Birth
9 December 1914, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
Date of Death
3 February 2010, Los Angeles, California, USA (natural causes)
Birth Name
Anna May Priest
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Biography::
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and was raised in Berkeley, California, she attended/graduated at The Pasadena Community Playhouse where her major was acting, and she pursued her career immediately. The Emmy Award nominee who has played Alice Horton for the entire 37 years that Days of Our Lives has been on the air, is daytime's television's most beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. As one of the two remaining original cast members, she is indisputably one of the most revered veterans in soap opera history. She has won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Actress/Mature Role in 1978, 1979, 1984 and 1985, and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1986-87, and for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1978-79. It should come as a surprise that many longtime fans that watched Days who knew her as Alice that Frances had an accomplished acting career prior to her debut on November 8, 1965. Her Broadway appearances include Hamlet with Maurice Evans, Cyrano de Bergerac with Jose Ferrer, Twelfth Night and a Theater Hill production of The Rivals with Mary Boland. Her first radio job was at NBC as Ann Rutledge in Prologue To Glory, which was followed by her role of Mrs. Moonlight in Mrs. Moonlight and Charlotte Corday in Charlotte Corday. Little did she know at that time how the name Corday was to play an important role in her life. Her television credits include "The Eleventh Hour," "Little Mister," "Wagon Train," and the movie-of-the-week, "Mercy Or Murder?"
Spouse
Philip Bourneuf (24 June 1940 - 23 March 1979) (his death)
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Trivia::
Is a graduate of the Pasadena Playhouse
In the audio commentary for the DVD version of Seconds (1966), legendary director John Frankenheimer calls Frances Reid one of his favorite actresses.
She and late husband Philip Bourneuf were a local husband and wife team for the Bucks County Playhouse for several seasons in the 1950s.
Was inducted into the Television Academy's archives in 2003, and was awarded a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
She and her late husband of nearly 40 years, Philip Bourneuf had no children.
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Personal Quotes::
I don't think I have any fears left. Death no! That's very calm, everything being the end. Except I resent that I'll be dead and won't be able to see certain things. I was thinking today about the expansion and contraction of the universe and if they'd find out more about the black hole. I thought, "Damn it. I won't be around for that.
In reference to a "Days of Our Lives" (1965) character whose upcoming storyline involved a major illness: Why are they letting her have a stroke? I HAD a stroke and they won't let me have a stroke!.
Frances Reid
Date of Birth
9 December 1914, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
Date of Death
3 February 2010, Los Angeles, California, USA (natural causes)
Birth Name
Anna May Priest
-----------------
Biography::
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and was raised in Berkeley, California, she attended/graduated at The Pasadena Community Playhouse where her major was acting, and she pursued her career immediately. The Emmy Award nominee who has played Alice Horton for the entire 37 years that Days of Our Lives has been on the air, is daytime's television's most beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. As one of the two remaining original cast members, she is indisputably one of the most revered veterans in soap opera history. She has won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Actress/Mature Role in 1978, 1979, 1984 and 1985, and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1986-87, and for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1978-79. It should come as a surprise that many longtime fans that watched Days who knew her as Alice that Frances had an accomplished acting career prior to her debut on November 8, 1965. Her Broadway appearances include Hamlet with Maurice Evans, Cyrano de Bergerac with Jose Ferrer, Twelfth Night and a Theater Hill production of The Rivals with Mary Boland. Her first radio job was at NBC as Ann Rutledge in Prologue To Glory, which was followed by her role of Mrs. Moonlight in Mrs. Moonlight and Charlotte Corday in Charlotte Corday. Little did she know at that time how the name Corday was to play an important role in her life. Her television credits include "The Eleventh Hour," "Little Mister," "Wagon Train," and the movie-of-the-week, "Mercy Or Murder?"
Spouse
Philip Bourneuf (24 June 1940 - 23 March 1979) (his death)
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Trivia::
Is a graduate of the Pasadena Playhouse
In the audio commentary for the DVD version of Seconds (1966), legendary director John Frankenheimer calls Frances Reid one of his favorite actresses.
She and late husband Philip Bourneuf were a local husband and wife team for the Bucks County Playhouse for several seasons in the 1950s.
Was inducted into the Television Academy's archives in 2003, and was awarded a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
She and her late husband of nearly 40 years, Philip Bourneuf had no children.
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Personal Quotes::
I don't think I have any fears left. Death no! That's very calm, everything being the end. Except I resent that I'll be dead and won't be able to see certain things. I was thinking today about the expansion and contraction of the universe and if they'd find out more about the black hole. I thought, "Damn it. I won't be around for that.
In reference to a "Days of Our Lives" (1965) character whose upcoming storyline involved a major illness: Why are they letting her have a stroke? I HAD a stroke and they won't let me have a stroke!.
