Biography for
Fay Templeton More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

25 December 1865, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Date of Death

3 October 1939, San Francisco, California, USA

Height

5' 4" (1.63 m)

Spouse

William Patterson	(manufacturer) (1906 - 1931) (his death)
Howell Osborne	(playboy) (1887 - 1895) (his death)
Billy West	(minstrel man) (c. 1880 - c. 1883) (divorced)

Trivia

Famous Broadway star in 1900s and 1910s.

Parents: John Templeton and Alice Vane, both actors.

Is portrayed by Irene Manning in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Remembered for the song "Rosy, You Are My Posey".

She was described as "The Toast of the Gay 90s".

Eloped with the minstrel Billy West when she was 15 years old. They soon separated and were divorced 3 years later.

Star of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

She retired from the stage in 1905 only to come back in 1933 to create the role Aunt Minnie in the play "Roberta".

Kept her marriage to Howell Osborne a secret because his family threatened to disinherit him if he ever married an actress.

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