Elinor Fair

Elinor Virginia Martin (née Crowe; December 21, 1903 – April 26, 1957), known professionally as Elinor Fair, was an American motion picture actress.

Early years Elinor Virginia Crowe was born on December 21, 1903, in Richmond, Virginia, to Harry Joseph Crowe, a salesman, and Helen Snowden Jones. Her older brother Donald died in 1904 just four months short of his third birthday. During her childhood her family relocated multiple times. Fair attended high school in Greenwich, Connecticut, and developed an interest in interpretive dance.

Career When Fair was elected a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924,

Personal life On January 13, 1926, Fair eloped and married actor William Boyd In Santa Ana, and they remained married until 1929. He obtained an annulment on June 20, 1934, although she had already obtained a Mexican decree of divorce. They reconciled and remarried. They divorced, however, in 1935. She next married Jack White in 1941, but this marriage too ended in divorce in 1944.

Death On April 26, 1957, Fair died of acute alcoholism and cirrhosis in King County Hospital in Seattle, aged 53. Her body was cremated.

Selected filmography The Fires of Conscience (1916) *lost film The Road Through the Dark (1918) The Turn of a Card (1918) The End of the Game (1919) Married in Haste (1919) The Miracle Man (1919) *lost film, only two fragments survive The Girl in Number 29 (1920) *lost film Broadway and Home (1920) Kismet (1920) *lost film, but the soundtrack survives Through the Back Door (1921) Cold Steel (1921) The Policeman and the Baby (1921) with Wallace Beery Big Stakes (1922) Dangerous Pastime (1922) Driven (1923) *lost film Has the World Gone Mad! (1923) *lost film The Eagle's Feather (1923) One Million in Jewels (1923) The Mysterious Witness (1923) The Law Forbids (1924) The Timber Wolf (1925) Gold and the Girl (1925) Bachelor Brides (1926) The Volga Boatman (1926) Jim, the Conqueror (1926) The Yankee Clipper (1927) My Friend from India (1927) Sin Town (1929) The Night Rider (1932) 45 Calibre Echo (1932)