It may have taken a few months for her obituary to come through, but they all count the same… Fay McKenzie was the last known surviving woman to have acted in the 1910s (she played a baby in the 1919 Gloria Swanson movie Station Content). However, she went on to make a serious name for herself as an adult, creating a partnership with singing cowboy Gene Autrey in a series of early 1940s horse operas. She effectively retired from cinema after World War II, although she does pop up in a cameo role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. She had filmed a movie the year before her death, Kill A Better Mousetrap, but I don’t hold out much hope for it getting 3,000+ screen release.
Fay McKenzie
February 19, 1918 – April 16, 2019
Died aged 101 (unique hit)