Louise Fazenda Biography

Fast Facts

• When she learned that a law student was considering leaving school to provide for his family when his wife got pregnant, she subsidized his studies
• After reading about a woman who died in a car accident that left her daughter injured, Fazenda paid the daughter's entire hospital bill
• Worked extensively with the UCLA Medical Center to feed young children who were receiving care there
• After dying to a cerebral hemorrhage, she was interred at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, Calif
• Worked for a dentist, a candy store owner and a tax collector before trying acting
• Appeared in many silent comedies as a gawky, wide-eyed, slapstick comedian
• Was recruited into Mack Sennett's troupe at Keystone Studios
• After retiring from movies, she spent her remaining years as an art collector
• Once went back and forth between her home and the hospital where she was volunteering to make different meals or a child who refused to eat
• When notorious criminal and author Edward Bunker was a child, she helped him during his recovery at a hospital, an encounter he detailed in the autobiographical "The Education of a Felon․"