Certainly! Here are 10 surprising facts about Frances Reid, an American actress who acted on television for nearly all of the second half of the 20th century 1:
- Frances Reid was born on December 9, 1914, in Wichita Falls, Texas, and grew up in Berkeley, California 1.
- She began her acting career in the 1930s and appeared in several films before transitioning to television 1.
- Reid played a variety of stage roles throughout the 1940s and 1950s and was a member of The Actors Studio from its inception in 1947 1.
- She played Roxane opposite Jose Ferrer’s Cyrano in the 1946 Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Alvin Theatre, repeating the role three years later, again opposite Ferrer, in a 1949 one-hour Philco Television Playhouse adaptation 1.
- From 1954 to 1955, Reid played the title role in the CBS television version of the radio serial Portia Faces Life 1.
- She portrayed the grasping Grace Baker, the mother-in-law of Penny Hughes, on As the World Turns from 1959 to 1962, and Rose Pollack, the kind-hearted mother of Nancy Pollock Karr, on The Edge of Night in 1964 1.
- Reid is best known for her role as Alice Horton on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives,” which she played from 1965 until her death in 2010 1.
- She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in 1979 for her work on the show 1.
- At the time of her death, she ranked fifth on the all-time list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States 1.
- Reid died in Beverly Hills, California, in an assisted living facility, aged 95, on February 3, 2010 1.
