Trivia

Turner was a major star at Vitagraph in the 1910s, but after a period of making films in England her Hollywood career never regained its momentum. By the early talkie era she was reduced to playing occasional bit parts. In 1937 Turner became one of the so-called "Old-Timers", a group of aging, neglected former stars who were employed as $75-a-week extras by MGM as an act of charity. Her last role was an uncredited bit in Whistling in Brooklyn (1943). She then entered the Motion Picture Country Home, where she died in 1946.

Turner's ashes are at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, locked away in the Basement Vault, a storage space for unclaimed cremains. It is not open to the public. A surprising number of Hollywood actors are in this room with her, including Oscar winners Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Edmund Gwenn, and Thomas Mitchell, along with Wilfred Lucas, Lionel Atwill, H.B. Warner, Tom Conway, and Helen Chandler. Ann Sheridan was here for nearly 40 years before her interment at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2005.

Along with Florence Lawrence, she is often considered to be the first major film actor to be publicized by name and achieve name recognition.

Daughter of Frances Turner

In June 1910 the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote a story on Florence titled "A Motion Picture Star," perhaps the first time the phrase came into the public consciousness.

Owner of Turner Films, a British production company active from 1914-15.

Owner of Florence Turner Productions, a British production company active from 1913-16.