Florence Roberts

Florence Roberts was an American stage and screen performer whose career in the theater started in New York City, where she appeared at the Brooklyn Opera House in Hoop of Gold. She landed an early engagement with the Denman Thompson Company, took leading parts with the N.B. Curtis Company, and later acted on Broadway, and she starred in Zala, a David Belasco production. For about fifteen years she ran a stock company in Philadelphia, made three world tours, performed a South African repertoire, and toured Australia with the Henry Duffy players. In the early 1900s she toured each year under Frederick Belasco. A Mack Sennett comedy marked the start of her film success; Sennett had spotted her onstage in Your Uncle Dudley and gave her a part in Grandma's Girl (1930). Her first screen roles were in A Wife's Suspicion and A Wise Dummy (1917), and she became best known as Grandma in the Jones Family series.