Later Years and Death
After several tempestuous relationships, Frazier and daughter moved to a small town near Cape Cod where she married once more, to distant relation Robert Chatfield-Taylor. This marriage also ended in divorce.
In 1966, photographer Diane Arbus took a now-famous picture of Frazier for Esquire magazine. Propped up in bed with a cigarette in hand, her face haggard and worn, Frazier looked every one of her 45 years and more—world-weary, exhausted, the parade having clearly passed her by.
Victimized by too much high living, Frazier retreated from the outside world and practically became a hermit. Still not forgotten, however, she was mentioned in the Stephen Sondheim song, "I'm Still Here" (from Follies) while living in relative obscurity until her death from bone cancer in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 60.
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