Lucile Fairbanks
American actress
Owen Crump
(m. 1942; died 1998)Lucile Fairbanks (1917–1999) was an American actress who appeared in 11 movies from 1939 to 1942, playing a lead role in A Fugitive from Justice (1940) and Passage from Hong Kong (1941).
Personal
She was the niece of Douglas Fairbanks.[1] She was married to Hollywood writer-director Owen Crump.[2]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1939 | We Are Not Alone | uncredited | |
1940 | Saturday's Children | 1st Nurse at the Greenwich Clinic | Uncredited |
1940 | Flight Angels | Thelma | |
1940 | A Fugitive from Justice | Janet Leslie | |
1940 | Money and the Woman | Miss Carlson | uncredited |
1940 | Calling All Husbands | Bette Trippe | |
1940 | Knute Rockne, All American | Telephone Operator | uncredited |
1941 | The Strawberry Blonde | Harold's girlfriend | |
1941 | Passage from Hong Kong | Marcia Calhoun | |
1942 | The Man Who Returned to Life | Jane Meadows Bishop | |
1942 | Klondike Fury | Peg Campbell |
Trivia
Fairbanks tested for the part of the second Mrs. de Winter in the Alfred Hitchcock film Rebecca (1940). Hitchcock felt she had a "sincere and naive hopefulness", but did not take her audition seriously.[1] Joan Fontaine was cast in the role.
References
- ^ a b Leff, Leonard J. (1987). Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood. Grove. p. 51. ISBN 9781555840570. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
- ^ Sragow, Michael (2008). Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master. Pantheon. p. 353. ISBN 9780375407482. Retrieved January 19, 2015.
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