Betty Brice

Her maternal grandfather was William Lewis Dewart, a congressman from Pennsylvania.

[3] She was raised in Washington, D.C.[4] After some time on the stage with stock companies, Brice began acting in silent films, under contract to the Lubin studio in Philadelphia.

"I daresay I never will fail to feel that little thrill that comes when I see myself on the screen," she told an interviewer in 1915.

[4] Films featuring Brice, many of them short films and serials that highlighted Brice's athleticism in stunts, riding, and swimming scenes, included Michael Strogoff (1914),[5][6] The Fortune Hunter (1914),[7] The Road o' Strife (1915),[8] The Sporting Duchess (1915),[9] The Phantom Happiness (1915),[10] The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch (1915),[11] The Meddlesome Darling (1915), A Man's Making (1915),[12] The Gods of Fate (1916),[12] Her Bleeding Heart (1916), Love's Toll (1916),[13] Loyalty (1917),[14] Humility (1918),[15] and Beau Brummel (1924).

She died in 1935 at age 46 from heart disease, in Van Nuys, California.

Film still, a courtroom scene, two women and one man in foreground.
Still from the American film Humility (1918) with Betty Brice, on page 32 of the September 8, 1917 Exhibitors Herald .