1. In 1890, "against the wishes of her parents", Fannie Ward made her stage debut as Cupid in Pippino with vaudevillian star Eddie Foy.
12 Facts About Fannie Ward
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Fannie Ward soon became a success in 10 stage productions in New York City before sailing in 1894 to London, where she performed in The Shop Girl.
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Fannie Ward resumed her career in 1905 after her husband suffered severe business losses that left him, according to news reports, "practically penniless".
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Fannie Ward was then cast two years later in another Broadway production, The New Lady Bantock; and after its run at Wallack's, she and other cast members took the play on tour to various cities during the latter half of 1909.
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In 1926, trading on her ever-youthful public image, Fannie Ward opened a Paris beauty shop, "The Fountain of Youth".
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Fannie Ward's first husband was Joseph Lewis, a British money lender and diamond dealer.
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In 1909, in an interview with newspaper reporter Marguerite Martyn, Fannie Ward stated, "My husband hates my work", and then she questioned why women are treated differently than men professionally:.
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Fannie Ward wouldn't speak to me for six months after I returned to the stage.
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Fannie Ward married firstly, in 1917, RAF Captain Isaac Henry Woolf Barnato, son of the diamond and gold mining entrepreneur Barney Barnato and secondly to Terence Conyngham Plunket, 6th Baron Plunket, and had three sons.
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On January 21,1952, at age 79, Fannie Ward suffered a stroke in her Park Avenue apartment and was found unconscious by a neighbor.
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Fannie Ward remained in a coma until her death six days later at Lenox Hill Hospital.
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The New York Times reported that Fannie Ward died without a will and left an estate with an estimated value of $40,000.