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Alice Faye: Fallen Angel
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As for "career conflicts," Faye settled hers in one decisive swoop. By 1945 she had tired of doing musicals and asked Darryl Zanuck for meatier dramatic roles. He cast her in Fallen Angel as a betrayed wife with Linda Darnell as the other woman, but he was so intent on building up Darnell that he cut Faye's best scenes. After previewing the completed film she complained to Zanuck, who said or did something she could neither forget nor forgive. That same day she walked off the lot and out of her contract, never to return. Blackballed by Hollywood, she stayed home and raised her two daughters, her career over except for a radio show with her husband and later a few TV appearances.
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By 1938, Alice was the queen of the singing stars at 20th Century Fox and she learned to develop a unique style all her own. Her new style became the standard for all of Hollywood's less creative (and definitely mediocre) actresses in the early 1940s when Alice plugged her songs-she produced 23 hit songs during her movie career-into hit movies like "Hello Frisco, Hello" (1943). It was the terrible editing job on the 1945 film "Fallen Angels" that had Alice storming off the sets of Hollywood, only to return more than 15 years later to make the films State Fair (1962) and The Magic of Lassie (1978). The Magic of Lassie was Alice's last film in Hollywood-she left the movie business for good that year, still disappointed at the downturns the film industry had taken, becoming less and less creative at every turn.
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[S]eventeen years after the Fallen Angel debacle, Faye went before the cameras again, in 1962's State Fair. While Faye received good reviews, the film was not a great success, and she made only infrequent cameo appearances in films thereafter.
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Musical films were Faye's calling card, and her best performances include 1938's Alexander's Ragtime Band, 1937's In Old Chicago and 1940's The Gang's All Here. Her husky singing voice, flawless comedic timing and natural ability to pull off poignant scenes made her one of Hollywood's most sought-after actresses. However, despite her on-screen talent, 1944's Fallen Angel would be Faye's final big screen performance. Following a dispute with Fox studio, she was blackballed for breach of contract, which ostensibly ended her film career.
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Faye singing ballads and swing numbers in her honey contralto voice was a regular highlight of the show, as was a knack for tart one-liners equal to her husband's. The show's running gags ... included portraying Faye as something close to an heiress ("I'm only trying to protect the wife of the money I love" was a typical Harris gag) and occasional barbs by Faye aimed at her rift with Zanuck, usually referencing Fallen Angel in one or another way.
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