Real name: Alice Jeanne Leppert

Height 5' 3"

Made herself 3 years older when auditioning as a chorus girl in New York in 1928.

Interred at Palm Springs Mausoleum, Palm Springs, California, USA.

Feeling she had given one of the best dramatic performances of her career, Faye was so upset by Zanuck, Darryl'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.

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). These songs are as follows:
Nasty Man
I Feel a Song Comin' On
I'm Shooting High
When I'm With You
But Definitely
Sing, Baby, Sing
You Turned the Tables On Me
Goodnight My Love
He Ain't Got Rhythm
Slumming On Park Avenue
This Year's Kisses
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Wake Up and Live
Never In a Million Years
There's a Lull In My Life
Afraid To Dream
You're a Sweetheart
Now It Can Be Told
I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak
Blue Love Bird
You'll Never Know
No Love, No Nothin'
A Journey To a Star

She remained quite good friends with her Fox rival and successor, Betty Grable, up until Betty's death of cancer in 1973.