- Was inducted into the Television Academy's archives in 2003, and was awarded a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.
- She and her late husband of nearly 40 years, Philip Bourneuf had no children.
- She and late husband Philip Bourneuf were a local husband and wife team for the Bucks County Playhouse for several seasons in the 1950s.
- Is a graduate of the Pasadena Playhouse
- She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
- In the audio commentary for the DVD version of Seconds (1966), legendary director John Frankenheimer calls Frances Reid one of his favorite actresses.
- Her father, Charles William Reid, served as Founder of The National Bank of Commerce of Wichita Falls, her mother, Anna May (née Priest) Reid, was a housewife.
- Had not watched television at all.
- She rarely granted interviews.
- Met soap opera actress Helen Wagner on the set of As the World Turns (1956), where the two had been friends for 51 years, until Reid's passing first, before Wagner would pass away, later, that same year.
- Her father, Charles William Reid, passed away of a heart attack at age 60.
- Graduated from Anna Head School for Girls in Berkeley, California, in 1932, at age 17.
- In order for Frances Reid to be transferred to Pasadena, California, in 1933, aged 18, at the time she was attending the Pasadena Playhouse, she left the University of California-Berkeley, where she attended college there, for a year.
- Had began acting almost all of her life.
- In 1925, when Reid was only 10, she and her family had moved to Berkeley, California.
- Frances Reid's character, Alice Horton, ranked #5 on the all-time list of longest-serving soap opera actors in the United States.
- Frances Reid passed away on February 3, 2010, at age 95. Lifelong friend and soap opera star Helen Wagner passed away on May 1, of the same year. The most coincidental thing is they appeared together on As the World Turns (1956). Reid played the mother-in-law, while Wagner (undoubtedly) played the matriarch role.
- As a young adult, she attended the closing party with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers, following Reid, who worked as an extra in Stage Door (1937).
- According to Frances Reid herself, before serving as executive producer of Days of Our Lives (1965), Ken Corday had always been very respectful of his parents' legacy in keeping Corday Productions alive and had always been very protective, whose parents were very proud of him.
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