Fania Marinoff | |
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.jpg) Fania Marinoff by Arnold Genthe in 1913 | |
| Born | March 20, 1890 |
| Died | (aged 81) |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Carl Van Vechten (1914-1964) |
Fania Marinoff (Russian: Фаня Маринов; Yiddish: פאַניאַ מאַרינאָוו) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was a Russian-born American actress.
Career
Marinoff played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917.[1]
Life
Born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), Marinoff 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.[2][3]
Death
Marinoff died in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey from pneumonia.[4]
Partial filmography
- One of Our Girls (1914)
- The Unsuspected Isles (1915)
- McTeague (1916)
- New York (1916)
- The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1917)
References
- ^ Still, J. A., & Headlee-Huffman, L. M., Just Tell the Story: Troubled Island (Flagstaff, AZ: Master-Player Library, 2006), p. 444.
- ^ New York Review of Books Thumbnail Bio "Carl Van Vechten"
- ^ Van Vechten, Carl (2003). Kellner, Bruce (ed.). The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-30. University of Illinois Press. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-252-02848-1.
- ^ Plumwood, V., Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1993).
External links
- Fania Marinoff at IMDb
- Fania Marinoff at the Internet Broadway Database
- Photo
- portrait gallery (NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)