Virginia Brown Faire

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Virginia Brown Faire
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 30, 1980(1980-06-30) (aged 76)
Laguna Beach, California
, U.S.
Other namesVirginia Faire Brown
Virginia Brown Fair
Virginia Browne Faire
OccupationActress
Years active1920–1935
Spouses
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(m. 1927; div. 1928)​
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(m. 1930; died 1933)​
William Bayer
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(m. 1935)​

Virginia Brown Faire (born Virginia Cecelia Labuna;

westerns
.

Early years

Virginia Cecelia Labuna was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Joseph Labuna and Martha Delsand.[2] Other sources have her last name as La Buna.[3][4] She attended Wadleigh High School for Girls.[2]

She was brought to

Motion Picture Classic magazine's "Fame and Fortune" contest, which she had entered as Virginia Brown, using her stepfather's last name.[4] The winners later appeared in a short film, A Dream of Fair Women (1920).[5]

Film

Black and white photograph of a man with white hair in a black shirt with a white ruffle and woman with her hair covered
Faire with John Gilbert in Monte Cristo

Not long after she turned 15 years old that she presented herself at the Metro studio where she was almost immediately put on. Shortly after she appeared in pictures for

Fox Films, she was with Universal Pictures.[6] Between 1920 and 1935, she appeared in some 75 films. Her first film credit was the 1920 film Runnin' Straight, a Hoot Gibson short western at Universal. Faire was the leading lady of John Gilbert in Monte Cristo (1922). She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923 and appeared with Wallace and Noah Beery in Stormswept that same year. She is most remembered for her role as Tinker Bell in the 1924 film Peter Pan.[2]

In 1926 she had a small role in the

Chicago, Illinois, in the late 1930s. She worked in radio and several films for industries prior to retiring to the west coast.[7]

Personal life

Faire married actor Jack Dougherty on February 6, 1927. They separated in September of that year and reconciled briefly, but they separated again by April 5, 1928,[8] and she filed for divorce on June 22, 1928.[9]

She married director Duke Worne on January 29, 1930.[10] Worne died in 1933.[11] In 1935, she married furniture manufacturer William Bayer, and they remained wed until her death.[3]

Death

Faire died of cancer on June 30, 1980, in Laguna Beach, California, aged 76.[7]

Selected filmography

Gleb W. Derujinsky with Faire as his model in 1920

References

  1. ^ Staff Writer (February 9, 1930). "Another Marriage". Detroit Free Press. Vol. 99, no. 281. Detroit, Michigan. Part 4, p.3 – via Newspapers.com. In taking out the license Miss Faire gave her off-stage name, Virginia Cecilia Labuna, and her age as 25 years.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0786446933
    . Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b Wagner, Laura (Fall 2016). "Virginia Brown Faire: B Western Leading Lady". Films of the Golden Age (86): 72–73.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0813137452
    . Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  5. IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ Fox, Charles Donald; Silver, Milton L., eds. (1920). Who's Who on the Screen. New York City: Ross Publishing Company. p. 212.
  7. ^
    New York Times
    . Vol. 129, no. 44641. p. A15.
  8. Newspapers.com
    .
  9. ^ Staff Writer (June 23, 1928). "Suit Filed by Actress for Divorce". The Los Angeles Times. Vol. 47. Part II, p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Staff Writer (January 29, 1930). "Movie Couple to Wed in Mountains". Santa Ana Register. Vol. 25, no. 53. Santa Ana, California. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Staff Writer (October 15, 1933). "Duke Worne, Veteran Film Actor and Director, Dies". Chicago Tribune. Vol. 92, no. 42. Chicago, Illinois. Part 1, p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.

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