Lucile Fairbanks Explained

Lucile Fairbanks
Birth Date:18 October 1917
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California
Death Place:Los Angeles, California
Othername:Lucile Fairbanks Crump
Occupation:Actress
Yearsactive:1939-1942 (film)

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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1939We Are Not Aloneuncredited
1940Saturday's Children1st Nurse at the Greenwich ClinicUncredited
1940Flight AngelsThelma
1940A Fugitive from JusticeJanet Leslie
1940Money and the WomanMiss Carlson uncredited
1940Calling All HusbandsBette Trippe
1940Knute Rockne, All AmericanTelephone Operator uncredited
1941The Strawberry BlondeHarold's girlfriend
1941Passage from Hong KongMarcia Calhoun
1942The Man Who Returned to LifeJane Meadows Bishop
1942Klondike FuryPeg 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Leff, Leonard J. . Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood . 51 . 1987 . Grove . 9781555840570 . January 19, 2015.
  2. Book: Sragow, Michael . Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master . 353 . 2008 . Pantheon . 9780375407482 . January 19, 2015.