[citation needed] Fair attended high school in Greenwich, Connecticut, and developed an interest in interpretive dance.

[6] When Fair was elected a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924,[4] she had already been in films for a number of years, and in vaudeville before that.

She did some of her best work under contract to Cecil B. DeMille, appearing in such productions as Yankee Clipper and Let 'er go Gallagher.

[citation needed] On December 27, 1932, Fair married aviator Thomas W. Daniels in Yuma, Arizona.

[12] On April 26, 1957, Fair died of acute alcoholism and cirrhosis in King County Hospital in Seattle, aged 53.