Personal Life
Fay Compton was married four times:
- H.G. Pelissier; (one son: Anthony Pelissier).
- Lauri de Frece; de Frece was Jerome Kern's best man at his wedding in 1910 at St Mary's, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.
- Leon Quartermaine.
- Ralph Michael.
Her granddaughter is the British actress Tracy Reed.
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