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Fay Compton

“If the failures of this world could realize how desperate half the present-day geniuses once felt, they would take heart and try again.”
- Fay Compton,
- Rosemary: Some Remembrances
- (1926)

Fay Compton, English actor

(1894 - 1978)

Born: Virginia Lilian Emmeline Compton-Mackenzie.