Beatrice Van (born Beatrice Abbott; August 8, 1890 – July 4, 1983) was an American silent film actress.

She grew up in Nebraska and Oklahoma, where she was educated in a convent.

[2] She was a leading woman at Universal for a time in the 1910s, and later worked as a scenarist for FBO.

[3] Beatrice married writer-actor James Gruen in 1927,[4] and later, an Australian national, Charles Collman.

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