Fay McKenzie

Fay McKenzie was an American actress and singer whose long screen career began in Hollywood as an infant. She appeared uncredited in Station Content (1918) at ten weeks old, followed by silent-film roles as a child. After a ten-year break for schooling, she returned in 1934 and spent the late 1930s mostly in uncredited parts and Westerns. She had a small role in Gunga Din (1939), which the Library of Congress later added to the National Film Registry, and appeared in When the Daltons Rode (1940). In the early 1940s she became Gene Autry's leading lady in five films, starting with Down Mexico Way, and sang duets with him. She also worked on Broadway, radio, and television. Later film appearances included Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), The Party (1968), and S.O.B. (1981), with a final cameo in Kill a Better Mousetrap in 2018.