Dennie Moore
| Dennie Moore | |
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Moore in The Women (1939)
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| Born |
Deena Rivka Moore December 30, 1902 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 22, 1978 (aged 75) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Florence Rita Moore |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1927–1957 |
Dennie Moore (December 30, 1902 – February 22, 1978) was an American film and stage actress.
Moore was born in New York City to Jewish parents, Oren Moore (January 12, 1883 — March 13, 1967), a cantor at one of the local synagogues, and Gabriella Gefen (October 31, 1885 — November 19, 1954). Some sources indicate she was born Deena Rivka Moore, but she was legally known as Florence Moore by the 1930s. She used the name Dennie because her family did not approve of her acting career based on their religious views.
In the late 1920s, she decided to pursue an acting career on the Broadway stage. She began her career on Broadway in 1927, appearing in such plays as A Lady in Love, The Trial of Mary Dugan, Cross Roads, Torch Song, Twentieth Century, Phantoms, Conflict, Anatol, and Jarnegan.
In the 1930s, she decided to embark on a film career and in 1935 she arrived to Hollywood and made her screen debut in an uncredited role in the Cary Grant-Katharine Hepburn film, Sylvia Scarlett for RKO Radio Pictures. She primarily was what is known as a "free-lance actress" and floated between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. Studios. In the course of her film career, she would star in twenty-two films between 1935 and 1951. Some of her film credits are parts in Boy Meets Girl (1938), The Women (1939), Saturday's Children (1940), Dive Bomber (1941), and Anna Lucasta (1949).
By the mid-1940s, Moore found herself getting less work in Hollywood, but more parts on the New York stage. In 1951, she made her last screen appearance as Mrs. Bea Gingras in The Model and the Marriage Broker. Moving back to New York City she made one final performance onstage in The Diary of Anne Frank in the role of Mrs. Van Daan. In 1957, she retired from acting altogether, aged 54.
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