American actress
Her first husband, Cullen Tate , was Cecil B. DeMille s assistant director. After his death, she married William S. Holman , a studio manager at Columbia Studios.
Probably the most well-known and prolific extra to work in Hollywood films.
She appeared in five Best Picture Academy Award winners: It Happened One Night , You Cant Take It with You , All About Eve , The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Around the World in 80 Days . In addition to those five films, she also appeared in eighteen others which were nominated for Best Picture: Anthony Adverse , Dodsworth , Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , The Awful Truth , In Old Chicago , One Hundred Men and a Girl , Love Affair , Ninotchka , Heaven Can Wait , Watch on the Rhine , Double Indemnity , Mildred Pierce , The Razors Edge , Father of the Bride , A Place in the Sun , The Robe , Witness for the Prosecution and Judgment at Nuremberg .
Of the films listed book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" (edited by Steven Jay Schneider) she appears in a remarkable 33 films, more than any other person.
She was a "dress extra", meaning a bit player who bought her own clothes to wear in scenes. One exception was her first role, in which she played a model wearing only a silk cloth in A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate .
Gave birth to her only child at age 25, a daughter Patricia E. Tate on January 29, 1924. Childs father is her first husband, Cullen Tate.
Her only child, a daughter Patricia E. Tate, died on August 1, 1972 at age 48.
Was known as "The Queen of the Extras".
Flowers is on record as saying Frank Capra, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Gregory La Cava are the directors she admires most.
Flowers doesnt remember the title of the first movie she appeared in, but it was at Metro in 1922.
Was a favorite of director James Cruze, who used her in most of his films after "Hollywood" in 1923. She was also a favorite of Frank Capras.
Did TV commercials for Chevrolet.
