Frank Fay
Theater Actor
1891 – 1961
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Who was Frank Fay?
Frank Fay was an American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor. Highly successful in vaudeville, he originated the role of "Elwood P. Dowd" in the Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. He is probably best known as actress Barbara Stanwyck's first husband. Their troubled marriage is thought by some to be the basis of the 1937 film A Star is Born, in which the previously unknown wife shoots to stardom while her husband's career goes into sharp decline.
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- Born
- Nov 17, 1891
San Francisco - Also known as
- Francis Anthony Donner
- Spouses
- Barbara Stanwyck
(1928/08/26 - 1935/12/30) - Frances White
- Lee Buchanan
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 25, 1961
Santa Monica - Resting place
- Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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