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Born on This Day: Fay Bainter 1893-1968

07 Monday Dec 2015

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Film, Jeanne Eagels, Theatre

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David Belasco, Fay Bainter, Jealousy, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, Reginald Venable, Ted Coy

1125767647WhiteFay.Bainter.JealousyFay Okell Bainter was born in Los Angeles on December 7, 1893. Encouraged by her mother, Fay first went on the stage aged six, and joined Oliver Morosco’s travelling stock company before making her Broadway debut at seventeen. Continue reading →

Born on This Day: Ina Claire 1893-1985

15 Thursday Oct 2015

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David Belasco, Ethel Barrymore, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ina Claire, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels: A Life Revealed, John Gilbert, Jumping Jupiter, The National Red Cross Pageant, W. Somerset Maugham

ina_claire_by_vintagedream_stock-d4qgoo8Of Irish descent, Ina Fagan was born in Washington on October 15, 1893. She never knew her father, who had died in a car accident four months previously. With no family breadwinner, Ina and her mother went to live in a boarding-house. From an early age, Ina had a talent for impersonations, and made her vaudeville debut in 1909 as ‘the dainty mimic’, under her mother’s maiden name of Ina Claire. Continue reading →

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