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Beatrice Lane This article explains the life of Beatrice, her great but demolished and eventually forgotten reputation as an actress, her husband, children, and parents, and her tragic death.

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Childhood Parents Sophia Smith, Beatrice's mother, grew up in East Italy in 1898 in a family of 6. The family included herself as the 2nd child, her older sister Heidi, her younger brother Nicholas, her 3nd youngest brother Drew, her 2nd youngest brother Peter, and her youngest brother Claud. Sophia's mother was a german writer by the name of Brenda Arif and her father a german mechanic, Angelo Lane. Above is a photo of Sophia and her four brothers in a german meadow. The family immigrated to Redding, England in 1913 where she met 24 year old Thomas Lane, who came from a poor polish family on the run from nazis, in the same year. He was the child of a carpenter and a sickly mother. Thomas and Sophia fell in love, much from the dissaproval of their parents. 2 years later they married behind both their parents back and went to Sweden, where they moved into an abandoned house. The house had two floors, downstairs a small kitchen and a den, and upstairs two bedrooms. Outside was a bathtub and a clothes line for the laundry.

Childhood On October 9th of 1918 Sophia gave birth to a girl at a midwife's house, the girl was named Beatrice after Blessing. Sophia and Angelo took their new born daughter back to their house at 7:00 in the evening, given a sack of rice and a small pitcher of milk by some neighbors who had witnessed the birth. Beatrice was given her own room upstairs, just seperated from her parents by a thin wall so that her parents would know when to come in. Because the family was poor, they could hardly live off the fish Angelo poached, and so when the baby came it was much harder. Her clothes were made from starched cotton by the mid wife who had delivered her, as well as Sophia, but the material was not strong and easily fell apart. The fact that winter began did not make things any easier.