Frank Fay (American actor)

Frank Fay was an American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor. Highly successful on the stage, he originated the role of Elwood P. Dowd in the Broadway play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase. The play drew him rave reviews. He is probably best known as actress Barbara Stanwycks first husband. Their troubled marriage is thought by some to be the basis of the 1937 film A Star is Born, in which the previously unknown wife shoots to stardom while her husbands career goes into sharp decline. In January 1946, just months after Nazi Germany had been defeated, a rally of ten thousand white supremacists gathered at Madison Square Garden for a proFascist event called The Friends of Frank Fay.

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