By the turn of the twentieth century, Fife and his two brothers (Locksley and Francis) were living in Dallas with an uncle and their maternal grandmother, Belle Shannon.

[4] Fife’s first movie, A Message from the Moon, was written in 1912 for Mack Sennett at Biograph Studios before joining the Lubin Company for several years.

By 1916 he was a freelance writer [5] working on such films as Susie Snowflake and The Rainbow Princess, former Ziegfeld Follies star Ann Pennington’s debut pictures.

[9] His health did improve though, for a little over a year later he was reported slightly injured with Dr. Godfrey Dewey and others while testing an Olympic bob sled course at Lake Placid, New York.

[11] He was noted for his one- or two-line quips on modern life – e.g., All agree that a woman’s blush is becoming, some insist it is becoming obsolete – Some college graduates who think they have drunk at the Fountain of Knowledge seemed to have only gargled – that were published in American newspapers and magazines for many years.