Faye Emerson
Faye Emerson was born in Elizabeth, Louisiana, United States on July 8th, 1917 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 65, Faye Emerson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film and stage actress who rose to fame in the 1940s as a film actress and television presenter, host of her own talk show. Emerson, a Louisiana girl, spent the majority of her childhood in San Diego, California.
While attending San Diego State College, she became interested in theatre and later pursued a career in acting, appearing in a California stock theater.
She then signed a Warner Bros. deal and began to appear in their films in 1941.
Lady Gangster (1942) and Howard Hawks' war film Air Force (1943), among others, appeared in several film noirs, including Lady Gangster (1942).
In 1944, she appeared in The Mask of Dimitrios, one of Zachary Scott's most memorable appearances.
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, the son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was married to her from 1944 to 1950. Emerson began hosting The Faye Emerson Show, a late-night talk show series.
She went on to become a popular television interviewer, earning her the nickname "The First Lady of Television" on her resume.
She appeared in numerous Broadway stage productions throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Emerson officially resigned from show business in 1963 and moved to Europe.
She lived there until 1983, when she died of stomach cancer in Deià, Spain, at the age of 65.
Emerson was recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for her contributions to the motion picture industry.
Her star is located at 6529 Hollywood Blvd.
Early life
Faye Margaret Emerson was born in Elizabeth, Louisiana, on July 8, 1917, the fifth child of Lawrence L. and Jean Emerson. During her early years, the family moved often, including El Paso, Texas, and New Mexico as she was an infant. Emerson's parents separated when she was three years old, and she and her father and stepmother were forced to live in Chicago in 1924. At the age of 10, she moved to San Diego, California, to live with her mother, where she spent the remainder of her formative years.
During her two years at the Academy of San Luis Rey, a Roman Catholic convent and boarding school in Oceanside, California, she became interested in dramatics. She attended Point Loma High School and San Diego State College for one year. Emerson appeared in summer stock shows in California, as well as the San Diego Community Theatre and the St. James Repertory Theater. On October 29, 1938, Emerson married William Wallace Crawford, Jr., a naval aviator. William Wallace "Scoop" Crawford III, III, the couple's son, was born in 1940.
Personal life
Emerson was married to auto-dealer William Crawford from 1938-1942. They had 1 son together and had 1 son. Emerson was married to writer and uncle of FDR Elliott Roosevelt from 1944-1950. Emerson's marriage to Roosevelt had begun to disintegrate by 1947. Emerson attempted suicide on Christmas Day 1948, after having performed her Broadway debut in The Play's the Thing, but was hospitalized. In January 1950, she obtained a divorce from Roosevelt in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Emerson was married to Skitch Henderson (1950-1977). Emerson made her final television appearance in 1963 and officially resigned from show business. She moved to Europe, first living in Switzerland for a time and then settling in Spain in 1975. Emerson returned to the United States but spent a large portion of her time in seclusion. Emerson died in Deià, Spain, where she had lived since 1975, at the age of 65.
Film career
Emerson was discovered by a talent agent from Warner Bros. studios in 1941 while appearing in a stage performance of Here Today at the San Diego Municipal Theater. She subsequently signed a film contract, appearing in bit parts before being cast in Bad Men of Missouri and Nine Lives Are Not Enough (both released in 1941). In the Lady Gangster (1942), she had her first appearance as a female gangster.
Emerson met President Franklin D. Roosevelt's son Colonel Elliott Roosevelt in 1943. When Colonel Roosevelt visited the Hughes Aircraft Company to examine the latest Hughes XF-11, Howard Hughes was instrumental in bringing the two together. Despite being married, Emerson and he joined up, being encouraged by Hughes' generous efforts and his social facilitator, Johnny Meyer. Emerson later reported that Hughes, amid her doubts, pleaded with her to continue the friendship, but she could not defy him. Emerson and Roosevelt married on December 3, 1944, at the rim of Grand Canyon, where she was filming Hotel Berlin. The wedding was sponsored by Hughes and Meyer. "My Faye" was Roosevelt's reconnaissance plane when he returned to Europe. The couple lived in Beverly Hills for a few months beginning with Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York.
Emerson continued to appear in a number of crime dramas, co-starring Zachary Scott (1944), Danger Signal (1945), and Guilty Bystander (1950). In the film noir Nobody Lives Forever, she co-starred with John Garfield, opposite Jane Wyman in Crime by Night. The murder in the Big House, which was built in 1942, was revived under a new name a decade later in the decade after Emerson began to make a name for herself in television.
Emerson's marriage to Roosevelt had begun to disintegrate by 1947. Emerson attempted suicide on Christmas Day 1948, after having made her Broadway debut in The Play's the Thing, and was hospitalized. She obtained a divorce from Roosevelt in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on January 12, 1950.