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Gladys Fairbanks
actress
- Born:
- 1892-04-15, California, USA
- Died:
- 1958-11-02, Alameda, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
California, 15 April 1892: a restless, bright-eyed girl enters the world as Gladys Fairbanks. By her early twenties she had stepped in front of the camera, slipping first into the salt-sprayed melodrama of Shore Acres (1914). Two short years later she reappeared, now trading small-town whispers for moral fireworks in Who’s Your Neighbor? (1917). That same year she closed her silent-era run with The Outsider, sealing a brief but indelible three-film legacy. Life after the credits rolled stretched four quiet decades; she died in Alameda, California on 2 November 1958, leaving only the flicker of those reels to speak for her.
