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The basics
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American actress
Gender:
Female
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Birth:
20 March 1890(Odessa)
Death:
17 November 1971(Englewood, New Jersey)
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Spouse(s):
Carl Van Vechten
The details
Biography
Introduction
Fania Marinoff (Russian: Фаня Маринов; Yiddish: פאַניאַ מאַרינאָוו) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was a Russian-born American actress.
Career
She played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917.
Life
Born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), she was the youngest of 13 siblings. She came to the United States as a young child with her elder brother Louis, whom she lived with until she joined a traveling play company around the age of fourteen. She married Carl Van Vechten in 1914. They had met two years earlier, and their marriage lasted over 50 years, despite rumors of Van Vechten's homosexuality.
Death
She died in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey from pneumonia.
Partial filmography
- The Unsuspected Isles (1915)
- McTeague (1916)
- New York (1916)
- The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1917)