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While working in the show, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who joined her in putting together a vaudeville act. After working with Gallagher and others in music halls for a few years, she headed west to Hollywood, California. There, she added the Paris name "D'Orsay" to the "Fifi" and began a career in movies, often cast as the naughty French girl from "Gay Paris."

While never a superstar, she worked hard at her craft headlining with the likes of Bing Crosby, and Buster Crabbe. For years, she kept alternating her appearances in film with continued performances in vaudeville and when age put an end to the glamour roles, she readily took jobs in television. At the age of sixty-seven, she appeared back on stage in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Follies.

Fifi D'Orsay passed away in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park CemeteryForest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California is the original Forest Lawn. see also Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery) Forest Lawn was founded in 1917 by Dr. Hubert Eaton on the grounds of a 1913 cemetery. Eaton was a firm believer in a jo in Glendale, CaliforniaGlendale is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. It lies at the eastern end of the San Fernando Valley, is bisected by the Verdugo Mountains, and is an important suburb in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city is bordered to the southwest by.

Some of her motion pictures:

• Assignment to Kill - (1968)
• The Art of Love - (1965)
• What a Way to Go! - (1964)
• Wild And Wonderful - (1964)
• The Gangster - (1947)
• Dixie Jamboree - (1945)
• Delinquent Daughters - (1944)
• Nabonga - (1944)
• Submarine Base - (1943)
• Three Legionnaires - (1937)
• Wonder Bar - (1934)
• The Life of Jimmy Dolan - (1933)
• They Just Had to Get Married - (1933)
• Going Hollywood - (1933)
• The Girl From Calgary - (1932)
• Mr. Lemon of Orange - (1931)
• Young as You Feel - (1931)
• The Stolen Jools - (1931)
• Women of All Nations - (1931)
• On the Level - (1930)
• Those Three French Girls - (1930)
• Hot for Paris - (1930)
• Women Everywhere - (1930)
• They Had to See Paris - (1929)

See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early HollywoodMotion pictures have been a part of the culture of Canada since the beginning. Hollywood and the development of its motion picture industry owes no small part of its success to a number of Canadians. At the beginning of the 1900s, young men and women, in