Florence Davenport Rice (February 14, 1907 – February 23, 1974) was an American film actress.
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Early years
Florence Davenport Rice was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the only child of sportswriter Grantland Rice and Fannie Katherine Hollis. She attended Dwight School for Girls at Englewood, New Jersey, and Smith College.
Career
Rice became an actress during the late 1920s, and after several Broadway roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood, where she acted in almost 50 films between 1934 and 1943.
Rice was cast as the reliable girlfriend in several films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which gradually provided her with more substantial roles, occasionally in prestige productions. Rice never became a major figure in movies, but she performed in a number of screen pairings with Robert Young.
Her most widely seen performances were in Double Wedding (1937), in which she was billed third in the cast credits behind William Powell and Myrna Loy, Sweethearts (1938) with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and The Marx Brothers film At The Circus (1939).