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Edwin Carewe

Biography

Edwin Carewe

Overview

  • Born
    March 5, 1883 · Gainesville, Texas, USA
  • Died
    January 22, 1940 · Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart ailment)
  • Birth name
    Jay Fox

Biography

  • Married petite actress Mary Akin when she was just 17 and he was 38. He was already married once - in 1905 but the records of that union are lost - and divorced. Carewe and Akin had two children during their first marriage, daughter Sally Ann (b. 1925) and son William (b. 1927). A third child with Mary, Carol Lee (b. 1932), happened during their second marriage.
    - IMDb mini biography by: E.J. Fleming

Family

  • Spouses
      Mary Akin(June 18, 1929 - January 22, 1940) (his death, 1 child)
      Mary Akin(May 13, 1925 - 1928) (divorced, 2 children)
      ?(1905 - ?) (divorced)
      Mary Jane Croft (1 child)
  • Children
      Rita Carewe
  • Relatives
      Wallace Fox(Sibling)
      Finis Fox(Sibling)

Trivia

  • Carewe first arrived in Hollywood by train, but not as a passenger; he was a hobo, and had hopped into a boxcar hoping to get to warmer weather in Los Angeles.
  • Father of actress Rita Carewe
  • Brother of director/producer Wallace Fox
  • Brother of director/writer Finis Fox.
  • Discovered Dolores Del Río, Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Francis X. Bushman and Gary Cooper .

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