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Virginia Brown Faire(1904-1980)

  • Actress
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Virginia Brown Faire
Virginia Brown Faire was born on 26 June 1904 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Broadway Billy (1926), Handcuffed (1929) and The Calgary Stampede (1925). She was previously married to William Bayer, Duke Worne, Jack Dougherty and Dick Durham. She died on 30 June 1980 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
BornJune 26, 1904
DiedJune 30, 1980(76)
BornJune 26, 1904
DiedJune 30, 1980(76)
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Virginia Brown Faire and Pat O'Malley in Pleasure Before Business (1927)
Virginia Brown Faire, Gaston Glass, Philo McCullough, Muro the Dog, and Arab the Horse in Untamed Justice (1929)
Edmund Cobb, Virginia Brown Faire, Charles K. French, and Tom Tyler in Tracy Rides (1935)
Virginia Brown Faire and Hal Taliaferro in Breed of the West (1930)
Joe Bonomo, Virginia Brown Faire, Rex Lease, and Harry Todd in The Lone Trail (1932)
Virginia Brown Faire and Hal Taliaferro in Hell's Valley (1931)
Virginia Brown Faire and Glenn Tryon in The Secret Menace (1931)
Virginia Brown Faire and George Grandee in Burning the Wind (1928)
Edmund Cobb, Virginia Brown Faire, Charles K. French, and Tom Tyler in Tracy Rides (1935)
Virginia Brown Faire
Virginia Brown Faire, Warner Richmond, and Jason Robards Sr. in White Flannels (1927)
Virginia Brown Faire, Al Ferguson, Rex Lease, Robert Walker, and Muro the Dog in The Sign of the Wolf (1931)

Known for

Broadway Billy (1926)
Broadway Billy
  • Phyliss Brooks
  • 1926
Handcuffed
  • Gloria Randall
  • 1929
Hoot Gibson in The Calgary Stampede (1925)
The Calgary Stampede
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  • Marie La Farge
  • 1925
Welcome Stranger (1924)
Welcome Stranger
  • Essie Solomon
  • 1924

Credits

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Actress

  • Tracy Rides (1935)
    Tracy Rides
    • Molly Hampton
    • 1935
  • Ben Corbett and Jack Perrin in Rainbow Riders (1934)
    Rainbow Riders
    • Jerry Hickson (as Virginia Brown Fair)
    • Short
    • 1934
  • John Wayne and Lloyd Whitlock in West of the Divide (1934)
    West of the Divide
    • Fay Winters (as Virginia Faire Brown)
    • 1934
  • Virginia Brown Faire and Wallace MacDonald in Tex Takes a Holiday (1932)
    Tex Takes a Holiday
    • Dolores
    • 1932
  • Virginia Brown Faire, Rex Lease, Jack Mower, and Billy O'Brien in The Lone Trail (1932)
    The Lone Trail
    • Ruth Farnum
    • 1932
  • Virginia Brown Faire and Glenn Tryon in The Secret Menace (1931)
    The Secret Menace
    • Joan Grant
    • 1931
  • The Last Ride
    • Doris White
    • 1931
  • Ken Maynard and Frank Mayo in Alias the Bad Man (1931)
    Alias the Bad Man
    • Mary Warner
    • 1931
  • Virginia Brown Faire, Rex Lease, and Muro the Dog in The Sign of the Wolf (1931)
    The Sign of the Wolf
    • Ruth Farnum
    • 1931
  • Virginia Brown Faire and Hal Taliaferro in Hell's Valley (1931)
    Hell's Valley
    • Rosita Flores
    • 1931
  • Bobby Dunn, Bud Osborne, Hal Taliaferro, and Robert Walker in Breed of the West (1930)
    Breed of the West
    • Betty Sterner
    • 1930
  • Hal Taliaferro in Trails of Danger (1930)
    Trails of Danger
    • Mary Martin
    • 1930
  • The Lonesome Trail
    • Martha Rankin
    • 1930
  • David Newell and Dorothy Revier in Murder on the Roof (1930)
    Murder on the Roof
    • Monica
    • 1930
  • Handcuffed
    • Gloria Randall
    • 1929

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • Virginia Faire Brown
  • Height
    • 5′ 0½″ (1.54 m)
  • Born
    • June 26, 1904
    • Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    • June 30, 1980
    • Laguna Beach, California, USA(cancer)
  • Spouses
      William BayerSeptember 1939 - June 30, 1980 (her death)
  • Publicity listings
    • 7 Articles

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  • Trivia
    Brunette leading lady of silent westerns and melodramas, with First National, American and PDC in the 1920s. Among the actors she appeared opposite were Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, John Wayne and Ken Maynard. She arrived in Hollywood in 1919 on the strength of having won a :Motion Picture Classic" magazine's Fame and Fortune Contest. Despite having a good voice, she did not do particularly well in sound pictures and restricted her later performances to radio (in Chicago) and vaudeville.

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