{{short description|American actress (1882–1952)}} {{Use American English|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Alice Fleming | image = Alice Fleming 1920s.jpg | image_size = | caption = Fleming {{circa|1920s}} | birth_name = Alice Fleming | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|8|9}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1952|12|6|1882|8|9}} | death_place = New York City, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1920s–1962 | spouse = Clarence V. Everett (1910–?)<br>William Day }}
'''Alice Fleming''' (August 9, 1882 – December 6, 1952) was an American character actress in many films who also enjoyed considerable success on Broadway.<ref>Magers, Boyd and Fitzgerald, Michael G., Westerns Women: ''Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television'', McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina and London, p. 225. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2028-5}}</ref> She is best remembered as the Duchess, Wild Bill Elliott's aunt in the Republic Pictures' Red Ryder Western features.<ref>[http://www.b-westerns.com/terms10.htm The Character Actresses, Alice Fleming, The Old Coral]</ref>
==Biography== Born in Brooklyn, New York,<ref>Alice Fleming, ''Movies & TV'', ''The New York Times'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20160307084803/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/23853/Alice-Fleming/biography]</ref> Fleming was the leading actress with the Harry Davis,<ref>{{cite news |title=Principal players who will be found in the new Harry Davis Stock Company at Grand Opera House |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59657226/the-pittsburgh-press/ |accessdate=September 20, 2020 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=December 19, 1915 |page=60|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> Baker,<ref>{{cite news |title=Alice Fleming at the Baker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59654513/alice-fleming/ |accessdate=September 20, 2020 |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |date=January 8, 1911 |location=Portland, Oregon|page=30|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> and Percy G. Williams stock companies.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |title=Alice Fleming |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/112446432 |accessdate=September 20, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=December 7, 1952 |page=89|id={{ProQuest|112446432}} }}</ref> Her Broadway credits included ''When We Are Married'' (1939), ''Window Shopping'' (1938), ''30 Days Hath September'' (1938), ''Stick-in-the-Mud'' (1935), ''One More Honeymoon'' (1934), ''The Pelican'' (1925), ''Thrills'' (1925), ''So this is Politics (Strange Bedfellows)'' (1924), ''The Lullaby'' (1923), ''Morphia'' (1923), ''The Masked Woman'' (1922), and ''As Ye Mould'' (1921).<ref>{{cite web |title=Alice Fleming |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/alice-fleming-40679 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=September 20, 2020 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20200920191826/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/alice-fleming-40679 |archivedate=September 20, 2020}}</ref>
Fleming appeared in several silent films, usually playing a young society matron. In the 1921 film ''His Greatest Sacrifice'', she played William Farnum's wife.<ref>[http://www.fandango.com/alicefleming/biography/p23853 Alice Fleming Biography, Fandango]</ref> Her final film was ''Storm Over Lisbon'' (1944).<ref name="nyt" />
In 1910, Fleming married real estate agent Clarence V. Everett.<ref>{{cite news |title=Alice Fleming leaves stage; is now bride |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/59658154/alice-fleming/ |accessdate=September 20, 2020 |work=The Oregon Daily Journal |date=November 10, 1910 |location=Oregon, Portland |page=14|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> She later married William Day. She died on December 6, 1952, in New York City.<ref name="nyt" />
==Filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * 1946 – ''Queen of Burlesque'' as Annie Morris * 1946 – ''The Dark Horse'' as Mrs. Garfield * 1946 – ''Sun Valley Cyclone'' as The Duchess * 1946 – ''The Dark Corner'' in Minor Role * 1946 – ''The Dark Corner'' * 1946 – ''Mantrap'' * 1946 – ''Sheriff of Redwood Valley'' as The Duchess * 1946 – ''California Gold Rush'' as The Duchess * 1945 – ''Wagon Wheels Westward'' as The Duchess * 1945 – ''Saratoga Trunk'' as Woman on Piazza * 1945 – ''Colorado Pioneers'' as The Duchess * 1945 – ''Marshal of Laredo'' as The Duchess * 1945 – ''Phantom of the Plains'' as The Duchess, Red's Aunt * 1945 – ''State Fair'' as Food Judge * 1945 – ''Lone Texas Ranger'' as The Duchess, Red's Aunt * 1945 – ''A Medal for Benny'' as Dowager * 1945 – ''The Affairs of Susan'' as Dowager * 1945 – ''It's a Pleasure'' as Carrie * 1945 – Great Stagecoach Robbery as The Duchess * 1945 – ''Youth for the Kingdom'' as Mrs. Webber * 1944 – ''Sheriff of Las Vegas'' as The Duchess * 1944 – ''Sunday Dinner for a Soldier'' in Minor Role * 1944 – ''Three Is a Family'' as Grandmother * 1944 – ''Vigilantes of Dodge City'' as The Duchess * 1944 – ''Storm Over Lisbon'' as Agatha Sanford-Richards * 1944 – ''Cheyenne Wildcat'' as The Duchess * 1944 – ''In Society'' as Dowager * 1944 – ''The San Antonio Kid'' as The Duchess * 1944 – ''Reckless Age'' as Irish Woman * 1944 – ''Marshal of Reno'' as The Duchess * 1944 – ''Tucson Raiders'' as The Duchess * 1944 – ''Her Primitive Man'' as Wealthy Lady * 1944 – ''Phantom Lady'' as Apple Annie * 1943 – ''Moonlight in Vermont'' as Mrs. Finchley * 1943 – ''Mystery Broadcast'' as Mida Kent * 1943 – ''Overland Mail Robbery'' as Mrs. Patterson * 1943 – ''Fired Wife'' in Minor Role * 1943 – ''Headin' for God's Country'' in Minor Role * 1943 – ''The Mantrap'' as Miss Mason * 1943 – ''Sherlock Holmes in Washington'' as Mrs. Jellison * 1943 – ''Keep 'Em Slugging'' as Matron * 1942 – ''Who Done It?'' as Mrs. Laffingwell Telephoning Moscow * 1941 – ''Playmates'' as Mrs. Penelope Pennypacker * 1937 – ''Dick Tracy (serial)'' as Orphanage Matron * 1922 – ''Silas Marner'' as Dolly Winthrop * 1921 – ''The Conquest of Canaan'' as Claudine * 1921 – ''His Greatest Sacrifice'' as Alice Hall * 1921 – ''Women Men Love'' * 1919 – ''The Pleasant Devil'' as Mrs. Thorndyke-Brook * 1919 – ''The Beloved Cheater'' as Brook {{div col end}}
==See also== * Red Ryder * Vigilantes of Dodge City
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0281596}} * The Character Actresses, [http://www.b-westerns.com/terms10.htm Alice Fleming], The Old Coral
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