Alice Faye Overview:

Legendary actress, Alice Faye, was born Alice Jeanne Leppert on May 5, 1915 in New York City, NY. Faye appeared in over 35 film roles. Her best known films include In Old Chicago (1937), Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), Lillian Russell (1940), Week-End in Havana (1941), and The Gang's All Here (1943). Faye died at the age of 83 on May 9, 1998 in Rancho Mirage, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Cathedral City) Cemetery in Cathedral City, CA.

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With a warm smile and warm voice to match, Alice Faye started out as a singer with Rudy Vallee's band. She became a much-in-demand actress for sympathetic roles in the musicals of the thirties and early forties before retiring early to concentrate on her marriage to bandleader-singer-actor-comedian Phil Harris (her second husband). Faye and Harris shared a radio show from 1946-1954. Harris won renewed popularity doing cartoon voices in Disney features, most notably Baloo the bear in The Jungle Book, but Faye's own comeback roles did not showcase her to advantage.

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. Alice Faye's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #44 on Mar 20, 1938. Faye was never nominated for an Academy Award.

Alice Faye BlogHub Articles:

The Oscars 1989: Snow White, Rob Lowe--and Buddy Rogers, Alice Faye, Cyd Charisse...

By KC on Mar 2, 2014 From Classic Movies

The opening number for the 1989 Academy Awards has got to be one of the most, if not the most notorious in the ceremony's history. Lovely 22-year-old actress Eileen Bowman played Snow White in a production that required her to squeak out her lines in a high-pitched voice, flounce through a... Read full article


At Home with Phil Harris & Alice Faye

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 13, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

In 1947 Radio Mirror featured an article on Phil Harris and Alice Faye apart of their regular "Come and Visit with..." series. The subtitle to the article was "How a bachelor's life was changed by three lovely blondes - changed for the happier". While most of the article seems to be true, one little... Read full article


At Home with Phil Harris & Alice Faye

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 13, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

In 1947 Radio Mirror featured an article on Phil Harris and Alice Faye apart of their regular "Come and Visit with..." series. The subtitle to the article was "How a bachelor's life was changed by three lovely blondes - changed for the happier". While most of the article seems to be true, one little... Read full article


At Home with Phil Harris & Alice Faye

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 13, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

In 1947 Radio Mirror featured an article on Phil Harris and Alice Faye apart of their regular "Come and Visit with..." series. The subtitle to the article was "How a bachelor's life was changed by three lovely blondes - changed for the happier". While most of the article seems to be true, one little... Read full article


At Home with Phil Harris & Alice Faye

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 13, 2014 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

In 1947 Radio Mirror featured an article on Phil Harris and Alice Faye apart of their regular "Come and Visit with..." series. The subtitle to the article was "How a bachelor's life was changed by three lovely blondes - changed for the happier". While most of the article seems to be true, one little... Read full article


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Alice Faye Quotes:

June Mills: I need you, Eric.
Eric Stanton: [sarcastically] You need me, right.
June Mills: You're my husband, and I'm your wife.
Eric Stanton: Right out of a book, again.
June Mills: Yes, out of a book: "We were born to tread the earth as angels, to seek out heaven this side of the sky. But they who race above shall stumble in the dark, and fall from grace."
Eric Stanton: Go on. Sounds good.
June Mills: "Then love alone can make the fallen angel rise. For only two together can enter Paradise."


Edie Allen: Hear the orchestra?
Andy Mason: Yeah, where's it coming from?
Edie Allen: Where's your imagination?


Jimmy Dolan: Don't forget, we've got another radio audition tomorrow. You know, this radio racket is a lot harder than Vaudeville used to be. Remember when we got married?
Jerry Dolan: No, and don't remind me. By the way, I'm getting tired of these radio auditions. If we don't land a job soon, I'm going home to my mother.
Jerry Dolan: Well, that's better than bringing the old bat here.


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Feeling she had given one of the best dramatic performances of her career, Faye was so upset by Darryl F. Zanuck's editing hack job on her last film, Fallen Angel (1945), that she literally walked away from the studio and didn't return for 16 years.

Daughter Alice Faye Harris, born May 19, 1942.

Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 199-200. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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