Florence Rice (February 14, 1911 - February 23, 1974) was an American film actress.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Rice became an actress during the early 1930s and after several Broadway roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood. Blonde, pretty, and wholesome, Rice was cast as the reliable girlfriend in several MGM films, and during the 1930s, MGM gradually provided her with more substantial roles, occasionally in prestige productions.

Rice never became a major figure in films, but achieved popularity in a number of screen pairings with Robert Young. Her most widely seen performances were in Double Wedding (1937), in which she was billed third in the cast credits behind William Powell and Myrna Loy, Sweethearts (1938) with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and The Marx Brothers film At The Circus (1939).

During the 1940s the quality of her roles steadily decreased and in 1947 she retired.

She married twice, with her second marriage lasting until her death in Honolulu, Hawaii from lung cancer.

She was everything you could want in a love interest -- pretty, wholesome, reliable, true-blue. Porcelain blonde actress Florence Rice would come to films in the mid-'30s but disappear within a decade, having made little of the impression she might have made. She was introduced to the limelight practically from the beginning as the daughter of famous sportswriter, documentary producer and radio commentator Grantland Rice (1880-1954). Rice was known for his many "Grantland Rice Sportslights" shorts in the 1920s and 1930s and would win an Oscar for Best Short Subject for Amphibious Fighters (1943). Florence, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio in the year 1907, attended grammar and boarding schools in Englewood, New Jersey, and developed an early interest in acting. Gracing such Broadway stage productions as "June Moon" and "She Loves Me Not," she began appearing regularly on the big screen in the mid-'30s and would work primarily for MGM in the light, sparkling comedy department over the years. Equally agreeable actor Robert Young (I) would be a frequent film co-star, appearing with her in such films as Longest Night, The (1936), Sworn Enemy (1936), Married Before Breakfast (1937), Navy Blue and Gold (1937) and Paradise for Three (1938). Florence's best known role would come as the somewhat vapid singing ingénue (Kenny Baker (II) was her bland male counterpart) in one of the Marx Brothers' lesser vehicles At the Circus (1939) (unlike Baker, her vocals were dubbed). As was usually the case, Florence was overshadowed in most of her pictures by flashier dames or zany comedians. Following her role as the bride in the spooky "B" comedy Ghost and the Guest, The (1943), she left films altogether and found some work waiting for her on radio and TV. Two prior marriages, including one to actor Robert Wilcox (I), failed, but in the postwar years she happily met and married Fred Butler and retired to Hawaii. She died of lung cancer in 1974.