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Fay Lanphier
Fay Lanphier
	Lanphier in 1926
Born	Fay Elinora Lanphier; December 12, 1905; El Dorado, California, US
Died	June 21, 1959 (aged 53); Orinda, California, U.S.
Resting place	Mountain View Cemetery
Other names	Fay Daniels
Education	Oakland High School
Title	1925 Rose Queen; Miss Santa Cruz 1924; Miss California 1925; Miss America 1925
Predecessor	Ruth Malcomson
Successor	Norma Smallwood
Spouses	; Sidney M. Spiegel (m. 1928; div. 1929) ; Winfield Daniels (m. 1931⁠–⁠1959)
Children	2

Fay Elinora Lanphier (December 12, 1905 – June 21, 1959)^[1] was an American model and actress most noted for winning the title of Miss Santa Cruz in 1924 and then Miss California and Miss America in 1925.^[2]

Early life

Lanphier was born in El Dorado, California, the eldest child of six born to Percival Caspar Lanphier and Emily Elenora Olson.^[3]^[4] Her family later moved to Alameda, California.^[4] Lanphier's father died before she was a teenager.^[4] She graduated from Oakland High School in 1924 and was saving money to go to business college.^[4] In December 1924, Lanphier signed a contract with Max Graf to star in a series of shorts produced on the San Francisco Peninsula.^[4]

Career

Pageantry

She was the 1925 Rose Queen.^[5] To date, she is the only person to hold both titles at the same time. She is also the first Miss California to become Miss America.^[6] Before she was Miss California, she was Miss Santa Cruz 1924. Lanphier won Miss America in 1925 on a vote of 12–3.^[4]

Film career

Lanphier appeared in the Paramount Pictures film The American Venus (1926) which featured a beauty contest, and co-starred Louise Brooks,^[7] and performed for a short time on stage in San Francisco with the Henry Duffy Players.^[8]

Personal life

On June 8, 1928, Lanphier married Sidney M. Spiegel, son of Joseph Spiegel, in Chicago.^[9] They divorced after six months of marriage.^[10]^[11]

In 1931, she married high-school sweetheart Winfield Daniels, with whom she had two daughters.^[12] They remained married until her death in 1959.^[13]

Later years and death

After her second marriage, Lanphier largely retired from public life and became a housewife and mother.^[13] She lived in the Oakland, California suburb of Orinda until her death from hepatitis and viral pneumonia at age 53 on June 21, 1959.^[14]^[15]

On June 24, 1959, Lanphier was interred at the Outdoor Mausoleum at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.^[15]

References

^ California Death Index
^ "Miss America's Smile Her Greatest Asset". The Pittsburgh Press. September 23, 1925. p. 6.
^ 1920 US Federal Census
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "The American Venus: Fay Lanphier's controversial career as Miss America · SCPL Local History". history.santacruzpl.org. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
^ "East-West Grid Game Stage Set". Berkeley Daily Gazette. December 31, 1925. p. 7.
^ "Miss California History". Miss California. Archived from the original on October 13, 2018. Retrieved August 21, 2014.
^ "Jesse L. Lasky Tells How "The American Venus" Was Selected At Atlantic City". The Palm Beach Post. October 4, 1925.
^ "Radio Technique Is Studied For Remote Control". San Jose News. November 11, 1929. p. 6.
^ "Fay Lanphier Weds Sidney Spiegel, Jr". Lancaster Daily Intelligencer Journal. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: LNP Media Group. June 8, 1928. p. 19.
^ "Beauty Queen To Wed". Sunday Morning Star. June 10, 1928. p. 23.
^ "Fay Lamphier Divorced". San Jose News. March 9, 1929. p. 9.
^ "Fay Lanphier Weds Schoolmate". The New York Times. July 22, 1931. p. 19.
^ ^a ^b "Fay Lanphier Dies; East Bay Housewife". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California: by San Francisco Media Company LLC. June 23, 1959. p. 3.
^ "Miss America : 1925". Archived from the original on March 30, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
^ ^a ^b Wilson, Scott (206). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3 ed.). McFarland. p. 425. ISBN 0-786-47992-2.