Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 199-200. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Daughter Alice Faye Harris, born May 19, 1942.
Daughter Phyllis Wanda born by Caesarian section April 26, 1944.
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.
Interred at Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Cathedral City, California, USA (near Palm Springs) with her husband, Phil Harris.
Made herself 3 years older when auditioning as a chorus girl in New York in 1928. Some sources even claim that she was born in 1909. A short biography included on the DVD of On the Avenue (1937) states that she was 12 years old in 1927, and did indeed lie about her age in 1928.
She introduced almost twice as many 'Hit Parade' songs in her movies (23) as each of her closest competitors: Judy Garland (13), Betty Grable (12) and Doris Day (12).
She remained quite good friends with her Fox rival and successor, Betty Grable, up until Betty's death of cancer in 1973.