Blanche Ring (April 24, 1871 – January 13, 1961) was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals,[1] and Hollywood motion pictures.

[15] Her sister, Frances Ring,[16] was married in 1909 to Thomas Meighan, the popular stage and later silent film actor.

Miss Ring made her debut at age 16 in A Parisian Romance in 1887 with Shakespearean actor Richard Mansfield's theatrical company.

[18] She followed this with another hit song "The Belle of Avenue A", performed in Tommy Rot, which was staged at Mrs. Osborn's Playhouse in New York City.

[19] Ring left the US for a tour of Europe including London, returning to America in 1904 where she became even more established as a favorite performer appearing at three notable venues belonging to vaudeville impresario F.F.

In 1910, she recorded "Come Josephine in My Flying Machine" after introducing it in a Broadway show, and the song became one of her biggest hits.

[23] Her impersonations were paired with those of Charles Winninger in the Passing Show of 1919, performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.

Her final stage performance was in her role as Rose Bertin in Madame Capet (1938); the production starred Eva Le Gallienne.

She acted in the motion picture It's the Old Army Game (directed by her nephew Eddie Sutherland) with W.C. Fields in 1926.

[24] Previous to living in Rye, Ring had a country home in Mamaroneck [27] across from the actress Ethel Barrymore[3] and another in Larchmont at 28 Oak Avenue.

Her interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery, following a rosary which was recited in the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Beverly Hills, California.

[citation needed] Blanche's nieces and nephews followed the family's tradition for careers in theater and music.

[31] In the film Somewhere in Time (1980), Christopher Reeve plays a journalist who researches a fictional Edwardian actress in a hotel's library, and finds some theatrical photos.

The same photo appears under Blanche Ring's biography in Daniel Blum's book Great Stars of the American Stage (1954).