Fay Lanphier

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|name = Fay Lanphier

|image = Fay Lanphier, silent film actress (SAYRE 5438).jpg

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|caption = Lanphier in 1926

|birth_name = Fay Elinora Lanphier

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|12|12|mf=y}}

|birth_place = El Dorado, California, US

|death_date = {{death date and age|1959|06|21|1905|12|12|mf=y}}

|death_place = Orinda, California, U.S.

|resting_place = Mountain View Cemetery

|other_names = Fay Daniels

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|education = Oakland High School

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|title = 1925 Rose Queen
Miss Santa Cruz 1924
Miss California 1925
Miss America 1925

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|predecessor =Ruth Malcomson

|successor = Norma Smallwood

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{{marriage|Sidney M. Spiegel|1928|1929|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Winfield Daniels|1931|1959}}

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Fay Elinora Lanphier (December 12, 1905 – June 21, 1959)California Death Index was an American model and actress most noted for winning the title of Miss Santa Cruz in 1924 and then Miss California and Miss America in 1925.{{cite news|title=Miss America's Smile Her Greatest Asset|date=1925-09-23|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|page=6}}

Early life

Lanphier was born in El Dorado, California, the eldest child of six born to Percival Caspar Lanphier and Emily Elenora Olson.1920 US Federal Census{{Cite web|title=The American Venus: Fay Lanphier's controversial career as Miss America · SCPL Local History|url=https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/items/show/10859|access-date=2021-07-06|website=history.santacruzpl.org}} Her family later moved to Alameda, California. Lanphier's father died before she was a teenager. She graduated from Oakland High School in 1924 and was saving money to go to business college. In December 1924, Lanphier signed a contract with Max Graf to star in a series of shorts produced on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Career

=Pageantry=

She was the 1925 Rose Queen.{{cite news|title=East-West Grid Game Stage Set|date=1925-12-31|publisher=Berkeley Daily Gazette|page=7}} To date, she is the only person to hold both titles at the same time. She is also the first Miss California to become Miss America.{{cite web |publisher=Miss California |title=Miss California History |url=http://www.misscalifornia.org/miss-california/history/ |access-date=August 21, 2014 |archive-date=October 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013082256/https://www.misscalifornia.org/miss-california/history/ |url-status=dead }} Before she was Miss California, she was Miss Santa Cruz 1924. Lanphier won Miss America in 1925 on a vote of 12–3.

=Film career=

Lanphier appeared in the Paramount Pictures film The American Venus (1926) which featured a beauty contest, and co-starred Louise Brooks,{{cite news|title=Jesse L. Lasky Tells How "The American Venus" Was Selected At Atlantic City|date=1925-10-04|publisher=The Palm Beach Post}} and performed for a short time on stage in San Francisco with the Henry Duffy Players.{{cite news|title=Radio Technique Is Studied For Remote Control|date=1929-11-11|publisher=San Jose News|page=6}}

Personal life

On June 8, 1928, Lanphier married Sidney M. Spiegel, son of Joseph Spiegel, in Chicago.{{cite news |title=Fay Lanphier Weds Sidney Spiegel, Jr. |work=Lancaster Daily Intelligencer Journal |publisher=LNP Media Group |date=June 8, 1928 |location=Lancaster, Pennsylvania |page=19}} They divorced after six months of marriage.{{cite news|title=Beauty Queen To Wed|date=1928-06-10|newspaper=Sunday Morning Star|page=23}}{{cite news|title=Fay Lamphier Divorced|date=1929-03-09|newspaper=San Jose News|page=9}}

In 1931, she married high-school sweetheart Winfield Daniels, with whom she had two daughters.{{cite news|title=Fay Lanphier Weds Schoolmate|date=1931-07-22|newspaper=The New York Times|page=19}} They remained married until her death in 1959.{{cite news |title=Fay Lanphier Dies; East Bay Housewife |work=The San Francisco Examiner |publisher=by San Francisco Media Company LLC. |date=June 23, 1959 |location=San Francisco, California |page=3}}

Later years and death

After her second marriage, Lanphier largely retired from public life and became a housewife and mother. She lived in the Oakland, California suburb of Orinda until her death from hepatitis and viral pneumonia at age 53 on June 21, 1959.{{cite web |url=http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1920/1925.aspx |title=Miss America : 1925 |access-date=2012-04-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100330160641/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1920/1925.aspx |archive-date=2010-03-30 }}{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|year=206|publisher=McFarland|edition=3|isbn=0-786-47992-2|page=425}}

On June 24, 1959, Lanphier was interred at the Outdoor Mausoleum at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.

References

External links

{{IMDb name|id=0487035|name=Fay Lanphier}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060526161139/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1920/1925.asp Biography]
[https://archive.today/20130117000241/http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6061&path=California.Alameda.Oakland.110.9&rc=&zp=75 1920 Census]
[http://www.tournamentofroses.com/photogallery/Queens/slideshow.htm Tournament of Roses]

{{succession box

| before=Ruth Malcomson

| title=Miss America

| years=1925

| after=Norma Smallwood

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{{succession box

| before=--

| title=Miss California

| years=1925

| after=Bertha Wiezel

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