Virginia MacFadyen

Virginia Hendon MacFadyen (January 3, 1900 – July 7, 1966) was an American actor and novelist born in North Carolina. She graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1919 and went on to establish herself as a Broadway performer during the early 1920s.

MacFadyen's most prominent stage role came in God of Vengeance, an English-language adaptation of Sholom Asch's Yiddish drama. She played Rivkele, the daughter of a brothel owner who enters into a lesbian relationship with a prostitute. The production opened at the Provincetown Theatre in Greenwich Village in 1922 before transferring to the Apollo Theatre on Broadway on February 19, 1923. The play's content drew legal scrutiny, and MacFadyen was among the entire cast indicted and convicted on obscenity charges, though all received suspended sentences.

Her second Broadway credit was The Wonderful Visit, a stage adaptation of H. G. Wells's satirical fantasy novel of the same name, written for the stage by Wells and St. John Ervine. MacFadyen appeared in the role of Delia, and the production premiered at the Lenox Hill Theatre on February 12, 1924.

Alongside her acting career, MacFadyen pursued a career as a novelist, publishing three books through Albert and Charles Boni in New York: Windows Facing West (1924), At the Sign of the Sun (1925), a novel set in an antediluvian lost race, and Bittern Point (1926). In her personal life, she married Swedish author Edwin Björkman in 1921 and later married New York broker Frank B. Hall, Jr. in 1926. MacFadyen died on July 7, 1966, in Waynesville, North Carolina.