Virginia Fox

Virginia Oglesby Zanuck (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Nee; April 19 [year of birth disputed]Template:Refn – Template:Avoid wrap was an American actress who starred in many silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.

Life and career

Template:Moresources Fox was born as Virginia Oglesby Fox in Wheeling, West Virginia (though her grave erroneously lists Charleston as her place of birth), the daughter of Mary Elizabeth (née Oglesby) and Frederick Fox.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

While on vacation from boarding school, Fox traveled to visit a friend in Los Angeles. The two made a casual stop by the studio of Mack Sennett, where she was hired on the spot and made a bathing beauty in the studio's films. She went on to star as leading lady in many of the early films of Buster Keaton, including 1920's highly regarded Neighbors.<ref name="nyt.gussown.1982.10.14" />

On January 12, 1924, she married film producer Darryl F. Zanuck, with whom she had three children, Darrylin, Susan Marie, and Richard Darryl. Fox retired from acting but was known as a behind-the-scenes influence on her husband's business decisions. The couple separated in 1956 over the studio mogul's affairs with other women, although they never legally divorced. According to Zanuck biographers, she cared for him at their home from the time he became mentally incapacitated in the early 1970s until his death in 1979.

Despite some Internet accounts to the contrary, Virginia Fox was not related to William Fox, whose name was used by 20th Century Fox (now 20th Century Studios and a part of the Walt Disney Company) and continues to be used in the trademarks of the present-day Fox Corporation. William Fox founded Fox Studios in 1914 but had lost control of it by the time Zanuck acquired it and merged it with his 20th Century Pictures in 1935.

Death

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Virginia Fox Zanuck's tomb in Westwood Memorial Park, Westwood, Los Angeles, California

On October 14, 1982, Fox died of a lung infection complicated by emphysema at her home in Santa Monica, California after having been sick for about a year.<ref name="ct">Template:Cite news</ref> She was buried near Darryl Zanuck at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1915	A Submarine Pirate
1920	Down on the Farm	uncredited
	Neighbors	The Bride
1921	The Haunted House	Bank President's Daughter
	Hard Luck	Virginia
	The Goat	Chief's daughter
	The Playhouse	Twin	Uncredited
1922	The Paleface	Indian Maiden	Uncredited
	Cops	Mayor's Daughter
1922	The Blacksmith	Horsewoman
	The Electric House	Girl	Uncredited
1923	The Love Nest	The Girl
1926	The Caveman	Party Girl

External links

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