Elinor Fair

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Elinor Fair (born December 21, 1903 in Richmond as Eleanore Virginia Crowe , † April 26, 1957 in Seattle ) was an American film actress . She was a busy actress during the silent and early talkies era, starring in 53 films between 1919 and 1934.

Live and act

She was the daughter of Harry and Helen Crowe († 1945) and had an older brother Donald, who died in 1904 at the age of two.

She made her first stage experiences as a child in vaudeville theaters. Fair was signed by Fox Film and made her first film, The End of the Trail , directed by Oscar Apfel in 1916 at the age of twelve. The films, The Fires of Conscience (1916), The Price of Her Soul (1917) and The Turn of a Card (1918) followed under the direction of Apfel . Early in her career, she was also listed in the credits as Eleanore Crowe, Eleanore Fair, and Lenore Fair. Other films followed in which she increasingly received leading roles, so that her career was more and more successful. In 1924 she was selected as a promising young star among the WAMPAS Baby Stars of the Year.

At the height of her career, she met and fell in love with actor William Boyd while filming the film The Volga Ship . The two married on January 13, 1926. Other films by her husband's side were Jim, the Conqueror (1926) and Rivals of the Ocean (1927). The marriage was divorced on November 16, 1929.

From 1933, her film career slowly came to an end and she was used in fewer and fewer films. Most recently she wasn't even mentioned in the credits. The actress, who had made up to $ 2,500 a week, was now steadily going downhill. In 1934 she married Thomas W. Daniels. The divorce took place in June of the following year. She lived with her mother in a modest apartment and in 1936 was penniless on the street. She was temporarily homeless and was picked up by the police. In addition, her health deteriorated. Transitionally, she was supported with funds from the Motion Picture Relief . Between 1941 and 1944 she had a third marriage to a Jack White and between 1945 and 1957 she married a certain Martin for the fourth time.

Alcoholic, impoverished and forgotten, she died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 53 in King County Hospital in Seattle .

Well-known directors she shot with include Cecil B. DeMille , John Ford , Alan Crosland and James W. Horne . Her film partners included Belle Bennett , Betty Blythe , Clara Kimball Young , Wallace Beery , Hedda Hopper and Henry B. Walthall .

Filmography

  • 1916: The End of the Trail
  • 1916: The Fires of Conscience
  • 1917: The Price of Her Soul
  • 1918: The Turn of a Card
  • 1918: The Reckoning Day
  • 1918: The Road Through the Dark
  • 1919: Tin Pan Alley
  • 1919: Vagabond Luck
  • 1919: The Lost Princess
  • 1919: The Miracle Man
  • 1919: Love Is Love
  • 1919: Be a Little Sport
  • 1919: Words and Music by -
  • 1919: Married in Haste
  • 1919: The End of the Game
  • 1920: Broadway and Home
  • 1920: Kismet
  • 1920: Occasionally Yours
  • 1920: The Girl in Number 29
  • 1921: The Policeman and the Baby (short film)
  • 1921: Cold Steel
  • 1921: The Little Mother (Through the Back Door)
  • 1921: It Can Be Done
  • 1922: Dangerous Pastime
  • 1922: Big stakes
  • 1922: White Hands
  • 1922: The Ableminded Lady
  • 1923: The Eagle's Feather
  • 1923: The Mysterious Witness
  • 1923: Has the World Gone Mad!
  • 1923: Driven
  • 1923: One Million in Jewels
  • 1924: The Law Forbids
  • 1925: Flyin 'Thru
  • 1925: Timber Wolf
  • 1925: The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
  • 1925: Gold and the Girl
  • 1926: Jim, the Conqueror
  • 1926: That Girl Oklahoma
  • 1926: Trapped (short film)
  • 1926: Bachelor Brides
  • 1926: The Volga Boatmen (The Volga Boatman)
  • 1927: Rivals of the Ocean (The Yankee Clipper)
  • 1927: My Friend from India
  • 1928: Let 'Er Go Gallegher
  • 1929: Sin Town
  • 1932: The Night Rider
  • 1932: 45 Caliber Echo
  • 1933: Midnight Club
  • 1934: Bolero
  • 1934: The Scarlet Empress (The Scarlet Empress)
  • 1934: Whom the Gods Destroy
  • 1934: Broadway Bill

Web links

Commons : Elinor Fair  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film Actress Found in need; Near Eviction. Chicago Daily Tribune, September 22, 1936, accessed March 8, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Elinor Fair. elinorfair.weebly.com/, September 13, 2014, accessed March 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fair, Elinor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crowe, Eleanore Virginia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1957
Place of death Seattle