1. Phyllis McKee Rankin was a Broadway actress and singer from the 1880s to the 1920s.
11 Facts About Phyllis Rankin
1. 2.
Phyllis McKee Rankin was the second daughter of stage actors Elizabeth "Kitty" Blanchard and Arthur McKee Rankin, known as McKee Rankin.
3.
In September 1890, Elizabeth Rankin filed a motion contesting her husband's resistance to providing support for their daughter.
4.
Phyllis Rankin was tutored by her father in "old school drama".
5.
Phyllis Rankin made her first stage appearance as a youth of 10 with her parents in Stormbeaten.
6.
Phyllis Rankin eventually left her father's companies and was managed by Charles Frohman.
7.
Phyllis Rankin was in the supporting cast of Sara, a play performed at the Palmer Theatre, in the summer of 1890.
Related searches
Charles Frohman 8.
At the Casino Theatre, 1404 Broadway, Phyllis Rankin played Fifi Fricot in The Belle of New York, which had a one-week booking in December 1897.
9.
Phyllis Rankin died in Canton, Pennsylvania, in 1934 at the age of 60.
10.
Phyllis Rankin died from a cerebral hemorrhage following an extended illness in 1947.
11.
Phyllis Rankin was the mother of three other children, 2 of whom acted on stage.