Background
Frederick "Fred" Hallen was born in Montreal, Canada.
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Career
A year or so before she died in 1890 at the young age of 32, he teamed up with Joseph Hart, as "Hallen and Hart" (again), and found success touring for several seasons with Hart"s musical comedies, Later On and The Idea. Hallen and Fuller were known for their short comedic plays and skits performed in vaudeville houses across North America for nearly a quarter century. Frederick Hallen died of stomach cancer on 28 February 1920, at his residence in The New York Palace Hotel.
Two months earlier he had fallen ill during an engagement in Toronto, Canada and was later told his condition was terminal.
After producer Edward Franklin Albee learned that was near blind and living in poverty in Chicago, he brought her back to New York where he asked writer Blanche Merrill (1895–1966) to write a piece for her to perform in. Before her vaudeville days Fuller was on the legitimate stage in productions like the burlesque musical Adonis, by Edward East. Rice and William F. Gill, and Rice’s Evangeline, in which she replaced Fay Templeton when the actress was unavailable.
The highlight of her career came in 1895 when Hallen bought the rights to the play "The Twentieth Century Girl" and cast her in the title role. died at around the age of 68 in Hollywood, California, on 5 January 1933. At the time of her death she was receiving assistance from The Troupers, a national vaudeville players association.
Her funeral expenses were handled by the National Vaudeville Artist organization.
