Florence Oberle was a stage and
motion picture actress from Tarrytown, New York

Tarrytown, New York

Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, about north of midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line...

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Oberle appeared on the New York City

New York City

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 stage in Morosco Theatre

Morosco Theatre

The Morosco Theatre was a legitimate theatre located at 217 West 45th Street in the heart of the theater district in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States....

 and David Belasco productions until 1915. She was once billed as the most beautiful woman on the American stage. In California

California

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 Oberle played opposite theatrical stars like Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. He is especially known for his work in the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.-Early life:Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Isabella...

 and Trixie Friganza

Trixie Friganza

Trixie Friganza , born Delia O’Callaghan, began her career as an operetta soubrette, working her way from the chorus to starring in musical comedies to having her own feature act on the vaudeville circuit....

. Her last appearance on stage came in 1931, performing with Jane Cowl

Jane Cowl

Jane Cowl was an American film and stage actress and playwright "notorious for playing lacrymose parts". Actress Jane Russell was named in Cowl's honor.-Biography:...

 in Camille.

In 1915 Oberle signed with Essanay Studios

Essanay Studios

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of Charlie Chaplin comedies of 1915.-Founding:...

, a pioneer film studio of the silent movie

Silent Movie

Silent Movie is a 1976 satirical comedy film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976...

 era. She also performed with Charles Ray

Charles Ray

Charles Ray was a silent film star. Extremely popular in a series of films casting him in juvenile roles, primarily rural young men, Ray's career faded as he lost his youthful looks- he also had a reputation of being demanding and having an outsized ego...

 and various Hollywood actors at Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Edendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company...

, Triangle Studios, and Famous Players. Among her films are The White Sister (1915),
Separating From Sarah (1916), The Invisible Web (1917), Her Country First (1918), and Smudge (1922).

Oberle lived for many years in Chicago, Illinois. When she retired she came to reside in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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 in 1931. Her home was
at 1237 West 96th Street. She was the widow of Thomas Oberle, a
matinee idol

Matinee idol

Matinée idol is a term used mainly to describe film or theatre stars who are adored to the point of adulation by their fans.The term almost exclusively refers to male actors. Invariably the adulation was fixated on the actor's looks rather than performance...

, who died in the early years of the twentieth century.

Florence Oberle died at the Little Romano Sanitarium in North Glendale, California

Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the city population is 191,719, down from 194,973 at the 2000 census. making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and the 22nd largest city in the state of California...

, in 1943. She was seventy-three years old.