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Alice Faye was born Alice Jeanne Leppert in NYC on May 5, 1915. She was to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the late 1930's and early 1940's. She started her career as a singer, but later gravitated to film roles.
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Actress and singer Alice Faye was one of the most popular Hollywood performers of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Starring in many of the era's top musicals she introduced more Hit Parade songs in her films than any of her contemporaries and was a favorite of composer Irving Berlin. She is still remembered fondly today by fans and revivalists.
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Starstruck Illinois gal Alice Faye arrives in Hollywood dreaming of a movie career, but instead enrolls in a fly-by-night acting school run by two con men. When a wealthy man agrees to finance a film, the scheming school owners hatch a plot to sabotage it in this song-filled comedy, long thought to be a "lost film." With James Dunn, Frank Mitchell. 74 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; theatrical trailer.
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Zanuck hit back, it is said, by having Faye blackballed for breach of contract, effectively ending her film career. Released in 1945, Fallen Angel was Faye's last film as a major Hollywood star.
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Her voice was inviting, and Irving Berlin once said he would choose Ms. Faye over any other singer to introduce his songs. In 1937, George Gershwin and Cole Porter called her the best female singer in Hollywood. In ''Rose of Washington Square,'' with tears in her eyes, Ms. Faye poured her love and faith in her no-good man into ''My Man.'' But the song with which she is most closely associated is the Academy Award-winning ballad ''You'll Never Know'' from ''Tin Pan Alley.''
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