Fay Lanphier
Fay Lanphier | |
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| File:Fay Lanphier, silent film actress (SAYRE 5438).jpg Lanphier in 1926 | |
| Born | Fay Elinora Lanphier December 12, 1905 |
| Died | June 21, 1959 (aged 53) Orinda, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mountain View Cemetery |
| Other names | Fay Daniels |
| Education | Oakland High School |
| Title | 1925 Rose Queen Miss Santa Cruz 1924 Miss California 1925 Miss America 1925 |
| Term | September 11, 1925 – September 10, 1926 |
| Predecessor | Ruth Malcomson |
| Successor | Norma Smallwood |
| Spouses | Sidney M. Spiegel
(m. 1928; div. 1929)Winfield Daniels
(m. 1931–1959) |
| Children | 2 |
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Fay Elinora Lanphier (December 12, 1905 – June 21, 1959)[1] was an American model and actress most noted for winning the title of Miss Santa Cruz in 1924 and then Miss California and Miss America in 1925.[2]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Lanphier was born in El Dorado, California, the eldest child of six born to Percival Caspar Lanphier and Emily Elenora Olson.[3][4] Her family later moved to Alameda, California.[4] Lanphier's father died before she was a teenager.[4] She graduated from Oakland High School in 1924 and was saving money to go to business college.[4] In December 1924, Lanphier signed a contract with Max Graf to star in a series of shorts produced on the San Francisco Peninsula.[4]
Career
[edit | edit source]Pageantry
[edit | edit source]She was the 1925 Rose Queen.[5] To date, she is the only person to hold both titles at the same time. She is also the first Miss California to become Miss America.[6] Before she was Miss California, she was Miss Santa Cruz 1924. Lanphier won Miss America in 1925 on a vote of 12–3.[4]
Film career
[edit | edit source]Lanphier appeared in the Paramount Pictures film The American Venus (1926) which featured a beauty contest, and co-starred Louise Brooks,[7] and performed for a short time on stage in San Francisco with the Henry Duffy Players.[8]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]On June 8, 1928, Lanphier married Sidney M. Spiegel, son of Joseph Spiegel, in Chicago.[9] They divorced after six months of marriage.[10][11]
In 1931, she married high-school sweetheart Winfield Daniels, with whom she had two daughters.[12] They remained married until her death in 1959.[13]
Later years and death
[edit | edit source]After her second marriage, Lanphier largely retired from public life and became a housewife and mother.[13] She lived in the Oakland, California suburb of Orinda until her death from hepatitis and viral pneumonia at age 53 on June 21, 1959.[14][15]
On June 24, 1959, Lanphier was interred at the Outdoor Mausoleum at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.[15]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ California Death Index
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- ^ 1920 US Federal Census
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External links
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- Fay Lanphier at IMDb
- Biography
- 1920 Census
- Tournament of Roses Archived February 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- 1905 births
- 1959 deaths
- 20th-century American actresses
- Actresses from Oakland, California
- American silent film actresses
- American stage actresses
- Burials at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
- Deaths from hepatitis
- Deaths from pneumonia in California
- Miss America 1920s delegates
- Miss America winners
- Female models from California
- People from El Dorado County, California
- People from Orinda, California
- Spiegel family
- Oakland High School (Oakland, California) alumni
- American beauty pageant contestant stubs
- American model stubs