Frances White (vaudeville)

She played "Fanny Warden" in The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford (1915), a series of silent short comedies.

She was a "child impersonator", wearing gingham rompers and an oversized hair bow; in this guise, she was known for popularizing the spelling song "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I".

[11] White played "Fanny Warden" in The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford (1915), a series of silent short films starring Burr McIntosh and Max Figman.

"This unique actress knows her limitations and flatly refuses to be anything but her breezy, slangy, fresh young self," said a 1925 newspaper profile.

[1] White first married in 1910, at age 14, in Mexico, to her co-star Lonnie Garwood; the marriage was quickly annulled.

A young white woman wearing a theatrical costume, seated indoors, knitting
Frances White, knitting, from a 1917 newspaper photo