- Born
- Died
- Birth nameFrances Cleveland Creighton
- Nickname
- Cleva
- Frances Chaney was born on August 20, 1889 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. She is known for The Big Night (1951). She was married to William Bush and Lon Chaney. She died on November 21, 1967 in Sierra Madre, California, USA.
- SpousesWilliam Bush(1919 - ?)Lon Chaney(May 31, 1905 - April 1915) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- She and Lon had an increasingly rocky marriage and in April 1913, she went to the Majestic Theater in downtown Los Angeles where Lon was working and attempted suicide by drinking a bottle of the poisonous corrosive mercury bi-chloride. She survived but her main talent, a beautiful singing voice, was gone forever. They divorced a year later and she willingly gave Lon custody of their son.
- Mother with Lon Chaney of Lon Chaney Jr..
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