Fania Marinoff

Fania Marinoff
Fania Marinoff
	Fania Marinoff by Arnold Genthe, 1913
Born	March 20, 1890; Odessa, Russian Empire; (now Ukraine)
Died	November 17, 1971; (aged 81); Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	Carl Van Vechten (1914-1964)

Fania Marinoff (Russian: Фаня Маринов; Yiddish: פאַניאַ מאַרינאָוו) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was an Russian-American actress.

Early life

Marinoff was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). She married Carl Van Vechten in 1914. They had met two years earlier, and their marriage lasted over 50 years until Van Vechten's death.

Career

She played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917.

Death

She died in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey from pneumonia, aged 81.

Some of her movies

References

↑ New York Review of Books Thumbnail Bio "Carl Van Vechten"
↑ Van Vechten, Carl (2003). Kellner, Bruce (ed.). The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-30. University of Illinois Press. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-252-02848-1.

Other websites

Media related to Fania Marinoff at Wikimedia Commons

Fania Marinoff on IMDb
Internet Broadway Database
Photo Archived 2006-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
portrait gallery Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine (NY Public Library, Billy Rose collection)

[1] New York Review of Books Thumbnail Bio "Carl Van Vechten"

[2] Van Vechten, Carl (2003). Kellner, Bruce (ed.). The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-30. University of Illinois Press. pp. 4–5. ISBN 0-252-02848-1.

Fania Marinoff
Fania Marinoff by Arnold Genthe, 1913
Born	March 20, 1890 Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	November 17, 1971 (aged 81) Englewood, New Jersey, United States
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	Carl Van Vechten (1914-1964)