Biography

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Fanchon Royer attended school there and in Minneapolis and Chicago. She entered pictures via the "extra girl" route in 1916. She became editor of the trade magazine "Camera" before her 18th birthday and, for several years, did publicity and actors' management. She produced her first film in 1928, "Life's Like That". Over the next ten years she produced more than 30 films in English and Spanish for the independent market. She was the mother of two sons and three daughters.
- IMDb mini biography by: Les Adams

She left Hollywood in 1940 and formed a company that produced and released religious films until 1945. In 1943 she became president of the Catholic Film and Radio Guild.

According to reporter Grace Kingsley, she was known for being the only woman producer in Hollywood in the 1930s.

Children with Gallagher: Fanchon (1932) and Jacquelyn (1935).

Children with Cannon: Royer (1922), Elwood (1926), and Sandra (1930).

[after working as an actress] . . . . one year in pictures contained more heartbreaks than I have ever known, before or since.