Elinor Fair
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Born | Elinor Virginia Crowe December 21, 1903 Richmond, Virginia, U.S |
Died | April 26, 1957 Seattle, Washington, U.S. | (aged 53)
Other names | Lenore Fair |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1916–1934 |
Spouse(s) | Thomas Daniels
(m. 1934; div. 1935)Jack White
(m. 1941; div. 1944)? Martin (m. 1945) |
Elinor Virginia Martin (née Crowe;[2][3] December 21, 1903 – April 26, 1957),[4] known professionally as Elinor Fair, was an American motion picture actress.
Early years[]
Elinor Virginia Crowe was born on December 21, 1903, in Richmond, Virginia to Harry Joseph Crowe, a salesman, and Helen Snowden Jones. Her older brother Donald died in 1904 just four months short of his third birthday. During her childhood her family relocated multiple times.
Career[]
When Fair was elected a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924,[4] she had already been in films for a number of years, and in vaudeville before that. She did some of her best work under contract to Cecil B. DeMille, appearing in such productions as Yankee Clipper and Let 'er go Gallagher. She also played in a handful of talkies, (often reduced to minor roles) before disappearing from the big screen in 1934.
Personal life[]
From 1926 to 1929, she was married to cowboy actor William Boyd.[4] Boyd's proposal was unique—while filming a scene for the DeMille film The Volga Boatman (1926), Boyd's character professes his love for Fair's character. However, what audiences were not aware of (due to The Volga Boatman being a silent film) was that Boyd was actually proposing for real, and that Fair accepted in character and in real life. They did not have any children together.
On December 27, 1932, Fair married aviator Thomas W. Daniels. He obtained an annulment, but they reconciled and remarried. They divorced, however, in 1935.[5] She next married to Jack White in 1941, but this marriage too ended in divorce in 1944.[6]
Selected filmography[]
- The Fires of Conscience (1916) *lost film
- The Road Through the Dark (1918)
- The Turn of a Card (1918)
- The End of the Game (1919)
- Married in Haste (1919)
- The Miracle Man (1919) *lost film, only two fragments survive
- The Girl in Number 29 (1920) *lost film
- Broadway and Home (1920)
- Kismet (1920) *lost film, but the soundtrack survives
- Through the Back Door (1921)
- The Policeman and the Baby (1921) with Wallace Beery
- Big Stakes (1922)
- Driven (1923) *lost film
- Has the World Gone Mad! (1923) *lost film
- The Eagle's Feather (1923)
- The Mysterious Witness (1923)
- The Law Forbids (1924)
- The Timber Wolf (1925)
- Gold and the Girl (1925)
- Bachelor Brides (1926)
- The Volga Boatman (1926)
- Jim, the Conqueror (1926)
- The Yankee Clipper (1927)
- My Friend from India (1927)
- Sin Town (1929)
- The Night Rider (1932)
- 45 Calibre Echo (1932)
Further reading[]
- Michael G. Ankerich (2010). Dangerous Curves atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen. BearManor. ISBN 978-1-59393-605-1.
References[]
- ^ "The Pittsburgh Press - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "Join Ancestry".
- ^ "Join Ancestry".
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Katchmer, George A. (2015). A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses. McFarland. p. 109. ISBN 9781476609058. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
- ^ "Divorce Asked by Elinor Fair". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. March 12, 1935. p. 19. Retrieved August 28, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Marriages". Elinor Fair.
External links[]
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- American film actresses
- American silent film actresses
- American child actresses
- Actresses from Richmond, Virginia
- 1903 births
- 1957 deaths
- Vaudeville performers
- 20th-century American actresses
- WAMPAS Baby Stars
- Western (genre) film actresses
- American screen actor stubs