page_title: Florence Reed
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Florence Reed / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: The footstone of Blanche Yurka in the Actors Fund of America at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY The footstone of Blanche Yurka in the Actors Fund of America at Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, NY
context_page_description: Florence Reed was an American stage and film actress. She is remembered for several outstanding stage productions, including The Shanghai Gesture, The Lullaby, The Yellow Ticket and The Wanderer. Her best remembered movie role was as Miss Havisham in the 1934 production of Great Expectations. In this version, however, Miss Havisham was changed from a completely insane woman to an eccentric, who did not wear her wedding veil constantly, and who dies peacefully rather than as a result of suffering burns in a fire. In the 1950s Reed performed in several early television shows, such as The Philco Television Playhouse, Kraft Television Theatre and The United States Steel Hour.She is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: Reed was married to actor Malcolm Williams from February 1908 until his death in 1937. They often appeared in stage productions together. They had no children. She died on November 21, 1967. 
  She was interred in the same burial plot with her good friend, actress Blanche Yurka, in the Actors Fund of America section of Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.
caption: Florence Reed and Blanche Yurka burial plot, with apparently wrong year of birth for Reed, and missing birth info altogether for Yurka
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