page_title: Chick Chandler
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Chick Chandler / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Drawing of actor Chick Chandler by his uncle, artist Howard Chandler Christy
context_page_description: Fehmer Christy "Chick" Chandler was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 130 films from 1925 through the mid-1950s. Chandler was known for his starring role as Toubo Smith in the Universal-produced 1955 syndicated television series Soldiers of Fortune.
context_section_description: Chandler was a cousin of artist Howard Chandler Christy, but is often referred to in period newspapers articles as Christy's "nephew" simply because Chandler referred to Christy as "Uncle Howard".
  In February 1925, Chandler became engaged to Ziegfeld Follies performer, beauty contestant winner, and Christy model Dorothy Knapp, whom he had met in Christy's studio in or around 1922.  Knapp broke off the engagement to pursue her career further, and Chandler then became partnered, both privately and professionally, with 17-year-old Sallie Sharon, whom he met at West Point.  The pair formed a vaudeville team, but never married.  On April 4, 1931, Chandler married Eugenia "Jean" Frontai, a former contract performer with David Belasco's theatrical company.  They were married 57 years, until Chandler's death from a heart attack on September 30, 1988.  (Jean Chandler followed her husband in death [from cancer] the next day in the same hospital, South Coast Medical Center.)  The couple had no children.
  Chandler had been an avid amateur auto racer, until his wife filed for a restraining order to make him stop as he had promised to do upon their marriage.
caption: Drawing of actor Chick Chandler by his cousin, artist Howard Chandler Christy
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