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  Denny Jackson's Alice Faye Page
Alice Faye was born Alice Jeanne Leppert in NYC on May 5, 1915.
Alice's first role was in the film SCANDALS in 1934 where she played Mona Vale.
Alice had always said that her family always came before her professional life.
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  Alice Faye: Biography
Alice Jeanne Leppert was born on May 5, 1915, in Hell's Kitchen, New York and was the third child of her Irish Mother and German Father.
Faye was happily married to Phil Harris until his death in 1995 (Faye had been married to Tony Martin for four years, before she married Phil Harris).
Faye was and still is one of the brightest musical stars to come out of Hollywood and even Irving Berlin felt that if he really wanted a song to take off, he would have Alice Faye plug it for him.
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 Alice Faye
Alice Faye was an American singer and actress, famous during the 1930s, and 40s for her radio, theatre and film performances.
Alice Faye was born Alice Jeane Leppert on May 5th, 1915 in New York City to parents Charley, a police officer, and Alice Leppert.
Faye had something of a tough girl image, a little rough around the edges, and Zanuck focused his efforts on turning her into a more conventional actress.
www.bestmoviestars.com /Alice-Faye.php   (491 words)

  
 Alice Faye -- Biography Highlights
Alice was chosen to play the lead and became an instant success.
Her new family life made Alice much less interested in her career, and upon completion of "The Gang's All Here," she announced her retirement from films.
Since she was at the zenith of her career and a top money maker, her studio and fans begged her to reconsider, to no immediate avail.
www.alicefaye.com /bio.htm   (373 words)

  
 Alice Faye @ Filmbug
She was born Alice Jeane Leppert in New York City and made her entertainment debut as a chorus girl on Vaudeville, moving on to Broadway in the George White Scandals.
Faye was originally engaged to perform a musical number with Vallee but was elevated to the starring role.
The picture was ostensibly designed to be a Faye vehicle, and she was the lead actress, however Zanuck was attempting to build the career of his new star Linda Darnell, and many of Faye's scenes were cut in favour of Darnell.
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 Solid! -- Alice Faye
Actress and singer Alice Faye was one of the most popular Hollywood performers of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Faye was slated to sing one song in the film, but when star Lillian Harvey walked off the set she was offered the lead.
Faye was married to singer Tony Martin from 1936 to 1940.
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 Classic Images: Alice Faye
Alice Faye, the lady for whom musicals seemed invented, died May 9th at the age of 83.
Betty Grable, Alice’s supposed rival at Fox, had to admit: “Alice is a darling.
According to a famous and often printed quote, Irving Berlin once said, “I’d rather have Alice Faye introduce my songs than anyone else.” This was because no one could match the warm sentiment she put in her songs, and no one could be so expressive.
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 Classic Images: Alice Faye
Alice Faye had too much class, warmth, and decency to pull it off.
Alice was also an excellent dramatic artist although she was not given many chances to display this gift.
All Alice needed was a camera and a song cue, as she often stood still during her songs.
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 MTV.com - Movies - Alice Faye
The daughter of a New York City cop, 14-year-old Alice Faye lied about her age to secure her first chorus girl job in 1929.
Faye's feud with Zanuck came to a head in 1945 when her leading role in Fallen Angel was cut down to practically nothing.
Since the death of Phil Harris in 1994, Alice Faye participated in several TV specials about Hollywood's "Golden Age," and remained in contact with her numerous, still-faithful fans until her death from cancer in early May 1998.
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 Alice Faye
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 Classic Coming Attractions by Barrie Maxwell
Powell is very appealing in the role and he gets strong support from Alice Faye as his chief co-star in the revue and from the antics of the multi-talented Ritz Brothers.
Faye really shines in the lead role as the famous stage performer and gains good support from players such as Edward Arnold (as Diamond Jim Brady) and the vaudeville team of Weber and Fields (brought out of retirement to play themselves).
Alice Fleming and Robert Blake appear respectively as the Duchess and Little Beaver, both continuing characters in the Ryder stories.
www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell031907.html   (4715 words)

  
 Variety: Alice Faye.(actress/singer, age 83)(Obituary)(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Alice Faye, perhaps the brightest musical comedy light at 20th Century Fox during the 1930s and '40s, died May 9 of cancer.
Faye died at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where she underwent surgery last month to remove two stomach tumors.
Her daughters' Alice Regan and Phyllis Harris, were at her bedside when she died, according to Jewel Baxter, Faye's spokeswoman.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20631502&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (203 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen (Hollywood Legends Series): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Alice Faye was one of the best performers to come out of 20th Century Fox and this book is a long overdue profile of her career as well as a revealing study of her life.
Written with the full cooperation of her daughters Alice and Phyllis, it is surprisingly objective and isn't one of those saccharine biographies often authorized by family members after a person's death.
The fact that Alice's daughters and friends participated so willingly is testament to both herself and the tact and skill with which the author has put the story together.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578062101?v=glance   (1424 words)

  
 Florence King on Alice Faye on National Review Online
For once Granny did not get a chance to jab me in the ribs and whisper "She's got consumption" or "She's losing her mind." The only tragic event in an Alice Faye movie was the requisite interlude of boy-loses-girl, but since the characters were always in vaudeville the show had to go on.
As balancing acts go, this one is almost impossible to manage without becoming cloying or ridiculous, as Doris Day would later prove, yet it was the elusive essence of Alice Faye: she was the girl men could imagine themselves respecting in the morning.
Alice Faye's last public appearance was an interview six years ago on American Movie Classics channel which was re-run last week.
www.nationalreview.com /king/king200408130855.asp   (1082 words)

  
 Alice Faye Duncan
Alice Faye Duncan believes that everyone has a story to tell.
For this reason she conducts writing workshops for adults and teens.
When students or adults need a jolt of joy and inspiration, Alice Faye knows how to change attitudes and ignite new thinking.
www.alicefayeduncan.com /workshops   (135 words)

  
 Faye, Alice --  Encyclopædia Britannica
As the first African American president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Faye Wattleton worked tirelessly for the reproductive rights of women in American society, and was at the forefront of the movement opposing legal restrictions on abortion.
Born in Eatonton, Ga., on Feb. 9, 1944, Walker—who was blinded in one eye from an accidental gunshot wound—won a scholarship for disabled students that enabled her to attend Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. She became involved in civil rights demonstrations at the college, and she later transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in New...
The U.S. novelist and short-story writer Alice Hegan Rice is known for her 1901 best-seller Mrs.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9123877   (569 words)

  
 Alice Faye Walts
Alice Faye was born the first of fourteen children to Shelby and Maggie Walts on January 3, 1912 in Georgetown, Indiana.
Amza and Alice Faye moved to the southwest in 1965 where they taught briefly in the Navajo nation and then settled in Albuquerque.
Alice Faye worked at Sears at Coronado Center until she retired in 1977.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Alice Faye Sings Her Movie Hits [Arranged & Conducted By Neal Hefti]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Alice Faye may have been queen of 20th Century Fox in the heyday of Hollywood but the studio stopped her making commercial recordings in 1937.
"Alice Faye Sings Her Movie Hits" is a wonderful record of some of the great songs sung by the top female, film vocalist of the 1930's and early forties.
The original LP was re-issued twice - such was alice faye's popularity and hopefully this CD will bring back memories to many and introduce this wonderful singer to a new generation of fans.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AQVE2   (389 words)

  
 NewStandard: 5/10/98
Miss Faye died at Eisenhower Medical Center in the desert community of Rancho Mirage where she underwent surgery last month for the removal of two stomach tumors, according to her publicity company, Jewel Baxter.
She remained active in radio, starring with her bandleader husband on the successful "Alice Faye-Phil Harris Show." She returned to Fox in 1962 for a Rodgers and Hammerstein version of "State Fair" and later toured in "Good News" with her former co-stars John Payne and later, Don Ameche.
The actress was born Alice Jeanne Leppert on May 5, 1915 (some sources say 1912), in New York City, the third child of a city policeman.
www.s-t.com /daily/05-98/05-10-98/c05ae119.htm   (495 words)

  
 Alice Faye: Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
About a starstruck Illinois gal (Alice Faye) who arrives in Hollywood dreaming of a movie career, but instead enrolls in a fly-by-night acting school run by two con men.
Macy's showgirl Alice Faye heads off on a Caribbean vacation, but after her ship encounters problems, the cruise company sends her to Havana with official chaperone John Payne.
Alice Faye plays the mother of Pat Boone in this version of State Fair from the 60's with Anne Margaret.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Alice Faye's sweet demeanour yet sultry glances and velvet voice were here signature.
Elder is not afraid to admit to gaps in her knowledge where those gaps exist, rather than trying to fill those gaps with speculation.
The Alice Faye that emerges from this book is human, but still the lovely star of such films as 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' and 'Tin Pan Alley'.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1578062101   (509 words)

  
 Alice Faye
ALICE FAYE, GLAMOUR GAL OF 20TH CENTURY FOX MUSICALS 60 YEARS AGO.
Alice Dixson: From Faye to Ina Magenta.(Entertainment) (Manila Bulletin)
Child-like appeal of Alice Faye Duncan (Tri-State Defender)
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 PHIL HARRIS-ALICE FAYE COLLECTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Collection, or "the library" as Harris referred to it, is a collection of memorabilia, which the Harrises donated to Linton in 1979 in connection with the original Phil Harris weekend.
He married Alice Faye, who was a popular movie actress in the 1930s and 1940s.
The memorabilia is a virtual history of show business and represents much of the lives and careers of both Harris and his wife.
www.lssc.k12.in.us /Projects/Long/Landmarks/pacollection.htm   (349 words)

  
 Alice Faye Pics - Alice Faye News - Alice Faye Information
As A&E's Biography put it, "She rose from the mean streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen to become the most famous singing actress in the world.
A newlywed couple has trouble consummating its relationship because the presence of the bride's bodyguards (her family is "connected") makes the groom...
Tell the world what you think of Alice Faye.
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 Meredy's Alice Faye Trivia Mania
Feeling she had given one of the best dramatic performances of her career, Faye was so upset by Darryl Zanuck's editing hack job on what 1945 film, that she literally walked away from the studio and didn't return for 16 years?
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 Alice Faye
The "Jills" are Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Mitzi Mayfair and Martha Raye, four members of a USO show unit touring Europe and North Africa.
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
When the aristocrat's wife (Faye) asks him to carry the impersonation further, complications ensue.
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 FGA - Alice Faye
From that moment on I was a big Faye fan, writing to Fox for the autographed photo I received and continue to treasure.
Film Weekly had this to say about her performance: ãIt is the splendid sincerity of Alice Faye which gives this film its sentimental purpose.ä Alexanderâs Ragtime Band was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture.
Sure enough, there were huge pictures of Alice Faye, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, and Cesar Romero as they appeared in Weekend in Havana.
www.filmsofthegoldenage.com /foga/1999/fall99/alicefaye.shtml   (612 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Tin Pan Alley (1940) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In "A Wing and a Prayer", the movie is being shown to Navy personnel on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific during WWII.
Alice Faye and Betty Grable were both absolutely beautiful, not to mention talented.
Alice Faye wryly observed in later years than many of her films had the same plot, with minor variations.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303128815?v=glance   (1309 words)

  
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If you'd like to know more about Alice Faye's - our menu, reservations, entertainment on a given weekend, or whatever - we'd like to hear from you!
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 Alice Faye Current Month TV Schedule
Starring Alice Faye, Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews, Charles Bickford, John Carradine, Bruce Cabot, Anne Revere, Percy Kilbride, Olin Howlin, Wally Wales.
Starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Benny Goodman, Eugene Pallette, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, James Ellison, Frank Faylen, June Haver, Jeanne Crain.
Starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William, Leo Carrillo, Nigel Bruce, Helen Westley, Dorothy Peterson, Ernest Truex.
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