Florence Foster Jenkins
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Florence Foster Jenkins was an American socialite and amateur coloratura soprano who became known and mocked for her flamboyant performance costumes and notably poor singing ability. Stephen Pile, in
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St. Clair Bayfield
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St. Clair Bayfield was an English stage actor, best known as the long-term companion and manager of amateur operatic soprano Florence Foster Jenkins.
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…built in 1897. Around 1900, she moved with her mother to New York City. In 1909, in her early forties, Jenkins met a 33-year-old British actor named St. Clair Bayfield (1875–1967); they began a vaguely defined cohabitation relationship that continued the rest of her life. Upon her father's death later that year, Jenkins…
St. Clair Bayfield 1875 1967