Faye Emerson

Faye Emerson

출생 : 1917-07-08, Elizabeth, Louisana, USA

사망 : 1983-03-09

약력

Faye Margaret Emerson was an American film and stage actress, and television interviewer who gained fame as a film actress in the 1940s, before transitioning to television in the 1950s, hosting her own talk show. Born in Louisiana, Emerson spent the majority of her early life in San Diego, California. She became interested in theater while attending San Diego State College, and subsequently pursued an acting career, appearing in stock theater in California. She subsequently signed a contract Warner Bros., and began appearing in their films in 1941. She starred in several films noir, including Lady Gangster, and Howard Hawks's war film Air Force. In 1944, she played one of her more memorable roles as Zachary Scott's former lover in The Mask of Dimitrios. From 1944 to 1950, she was married to Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1949, Emerson began hosting The Faye Emerson Show, a late-night talk show series. She went on to become a prolific television interviewer, which earned her the nickname "The First Lady of Television". Throughout the 1950s, she also appeared in numerous Broadway stage productions. Emerson formally retired from show business in 1963, and retired to Europe. She resided there until 1983, when she died of stomach cancer in Deià, Spain, aged 65. For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Emerson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Her star is located at 6529 Hollywood Blvd.

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참여 작품

Main Street to Broadway
Self
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspiration when his agent convinces a stage star to take his next effort. When he returns to Broadway, his girl stays behind and starts seeing a local businessman.
Guilty Bystander
Georgia
A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.
Nobody Lives Forever
Toni Blackburn
A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.
Her Kind of Man
Ruby Marino
A singer can't choose between a charismatic gangster and an honest newspaperman.
Danger Signal
Hilda Fenchurch
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Hotel Berlin
Tillie Weiler
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany.
Hollywood Canteen
Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
The Very Thought of You
Cora 'Cuddles' Colton
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
Crime by Night
Ann Marlow
A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Irana Preveza
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Between Two Worlds
Maxine Russell
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
Uncertain Glory
Louise
In occupied France, a convicted thief and murderer escapes the guillotine when a bombing raid strikes the prison, but is quickly re-captured by the inspector of the Surete responsible for his original arrest. Fearing the guillotine more than his actual death, the convict inveigles the inspector to help him with a plan to rescue 100 Frenchmen taken by the Gestapo following an act of sabotage: he will confess to being the saboteur and allow himself to be executed by firing squad, the Gestapo's method of execution, thus freeing the 100 men.
In Our Time
Friend of Count Stephan in Nightclub (uncredited)
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
데스티네이션 도쿄
Mrs. Cassidy
미국의 한 특수부대가 세계2차대전 중 일본 본토에 연합군의 강행 상륙을 준비하기 위한 임무를 부여받는다. 이에 따라서 캐시디 (케리 그란트)가 이끄는 특수전 요원들을 동경만에 침투하여 항공 공격 목표 설정 장치을 설치하려는 작전을 전개하는데...
The Desert Song
Hajy
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Food and Magic
A sideshow barker uses magic and visual aids to alert the public that proper food management is both a resource and a weapon that could be to America's advantage if conserved properly in winning the then current World War.
Find the Blackmailer
Mona Vance
A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.
Women at War
Anastasia 'Stormy' Hart
Three young women arrive at the Women's Army Corps facility in Fort Des Moines for varied reasons and with different goals. Mary Savage is a war widow who wants to become an officer, farm girl Stormy Hart wants to become involved in motor transport, and Lorna Travis seeks to win the approval of her father, a major general, who has very chauvinist views on the role of women in the military. Intensive training and guidance prepares the three to make a contribution to the success of the upcoming war games conducted by General Travis and validate the value of the WACS to the war effort.
에어 포스
Susan McMartin
1941년 12월 6일, 9대의 B-17 폭격기가 샌프란시스코에서 하와이로 향한다. 폭격기 ‘메리 앤’은 아일랜드인 퀸캐넌이 조종한다. 폭격수 맥마틴의 여동생은 하와이에 살고 있는데, 부조종사 윌리엄스가 그녀를 좋아한다. 한편, 사수 위노키는 틈만 나면 군을 떠날 생각을 한다. 12월 7일 아침, 이들은 태평양을 건너 목적지에 도착하는데, 바로 그때, 일본군이 진주만을 습격했다는 소식이 들려온다. 진주만 습격과 관련한 역사적 사건을 바탕으로 한 작품으로, 놀랄 만한 비행 장면을 화면에 담았다. 혹스는 조종사의 삶에도 초점을 맞추면서도 공동의 책임의식과 팀워크가 전장에서 얼마나 중요한지 이야기한다. * 필름제공: The Library of Congress (USA) (2016 영화의 전당 - 세계영화사의 위대한 유산, 월드시네마 XIII)
The Hard Way
Ice Cream Parlor Waitress
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Secret Enemies
Paula Fengler
FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.
Juke Girl
Violet 'Murph' Murphy
During the depths of the Great Depression a hitch-hiker Steve Talbot and jukebox-joint hostess Lola Mears stumble into Cat-Tail Florida where farmers and pickers struggle under the buyer who rules by monopoly, dirty contracts and violence. Steve helps organize against the buyer, leading to further escalation ending in a lynch mob.
Murder in the Big House
Gladys Wayne
When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...
Lady Gangster
Dorothy Burton
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Wild Bill Hickok Rides
Peg
The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.
Blues in the Night
Dr. Morse's Nurse (uncredited)
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find musical success.
At the Stroke of Twelve
Miss LaMond
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
Nine Lives Are Not Enough
Rose Chadwick
A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.
Manpower
Nurse Who Lost Draw (uncredited)
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang. Tensions start to show in the road crew as rivalry between Hank and Johnny increases.
Bad Men of Missouri
Martha Adams
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
The Nurse's Secret
Miss Hill
An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.