{{Short description|American silent film actress (1900–1957)}} {{Infobox person | name = Faire Binney | image = File:Actress Faire Binney (SAYRE 7773).jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = Frederica Binney | birth_date = August 24, 1900 | birth_place = Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85838843/ "Here is Connie's Sister"], ''The Gazette Times'' (Pittsburgh), March 27, 1921. Accessed April 5, 2021, via Newspapers.com. "Faire Binney, who plays a leading role in ''Madonnas and Men,'' is a sister of Constance Binney. She is a native of Morristown. N. J."</ref> | death_date = {{death date and age|August 28, 1957|August 24, 1900}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1918–1953 | relatives = Constance Binney (sister) | spouse = {{marriage|David Carleton Sloane|1922}} }} '''Frederica''' "'''Faire'''" '''Binney''' (August 24, 1900 – August 28, 1957) was an American stage and film actress.<ref>Goble p.306</ref><ref>Soister, Nicolella & Joyce p.732</ref>
==Biography== Born Frederica Binney<ref name="pi">{{cite news |title=From Society To Stage -- and Back Again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84329777/the-philadelphia-inquirer/ |access-date=August 29, 2021 |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=March 28, 1926 |page=130|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref> in Morristown, New Jersey,<ref name=":0">{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Charles Donald |last2=Silver |first2=Milton L. |title=Who's who on the Screen |date=1920 |publisher=Ross publishing Company |page=206 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DAOAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Faire+Binney%22&pg=PA206 |access-date=August 29, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> she was the daughter of Horace Binney, a lawyer, and Gertrude Miles Binney.<ref name="pi" /> She was educated in private schools<ref name="ed">{{cite book |last1=Lowe |first1=Denise |title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930 |date=27 January 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-71896-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=68e2AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Faire+Binney%22&pg=PA1887 |access-date=August 29, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> in Concord, Massachusetts.<ref name=":0" /> She starred in a number of films during the silent era after making her debut in the 1918 film ''Sporting Life'' alongside her sister Constance Binney. During the early 1950s she appeared in several small, uncredited parts.{{Citation needed |date=April 2024}}
Binney married David Carleton Sloane<ref name="pi" /> in October 1922, at her mother's house in New York.<ref name="pp">{{cite news |last1=Houser |first1=Lionel |title=Stage Again Lures Binney Duo Who Are Rehearsing New Play |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84328317/the-pittsburgh-press/ |access-date=August 29, 2021 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |date=January 21, 1934 |page=23|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Sporting Life'' (1918) * ''Woman'' (1918) * ''Here Comes the Bride'' (1919) * ''Open Your Eyes'' (1919) * ''The Wonder Man'' (1920) * ''The Blue Pearl'' (1920) * ''Madonnas and Men'' (1920) * ''The Girl from Porcupine'' (1921) * ''A Man's Home'' (1921) * ''Frontier of the Stars'' (1921) * ''A Wide Open Town'' (1922) * ''What Fools Men Are'' (1922) * ''Loyal Lives'' (1923) * ''Second Youth'' (1924) * ''The Man Without a Heart'' (1924) * ''The Speed Spook'' (1924) * ''The Lost Chord'' (1925) * ''False Pride'' (1925) * ''Three Guys Named Mike'' (1951) * ''Monkey Business'' (1952) * ''Dream Wife'' (1953)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * John T. Soister, Henry Nicolella & Steve Joyce. ''American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929''. McFarland, 2014.
==External links== {{commons category}} *{{IMDb name|0083061}}
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