Here is the biography of Faye Emerson:
Faye Emerson was born in 1917 in Elizabeth, Louisiana, to a rancher and court stenographer father. Her family later moved to Texas, Illinois, and finally California, where she attended San Diego State College and developed an interest in acting. She made her stage debut in 1935 with "Russet Mantle" and went on to perform in several Community Players productions.
Faye's first marriage to William Crawford, a San Diego car dealer, was short-lived and produced one child before ending in 1942. After being spotted by Paramount and Warner Bros. talent scouts in a 1941 San Diego production of "Here Today", she decided Warner on Bros. and began uncredited in films such as "Manpower" (1941) and "Blues in the Night" (1941).
During her five-year tenure at Warners, Faye progressed to a variety of swanky secondary and co-star roles in "B" war-era movies, including "Murder in the Big House" (1942),"Air Force" (1943),"The Desert Song" (1943),"The Mask of Dimitrios" (1944),"Between Two Worlds" (1944),"The Very Thought of You" (1945),"Hotel Berlin" (1945),"Danger Signal" (1945),and "Nobody Lives Forever" (1946).
In 1944, Faye married Elliott Roosevelt, the fourth child of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the couple lived in the White House for a time before her husband's death in 1945. Faye abruptly abandoned the Hollywood scene after her marriage and the couple became major figures in the New York social scene.
Faye made her Broadway debut in "The Play's the Thing" (1948) and later entered the world of television, where she truly found her niche. She was a sparkling actress of both drama and comedy, a stylish, Emmy-nominated personality, and a regular panelist on game shows such as "Masquerade Party" (1952) and "I've Got a Secret" (1952).
In addition to her television work, Faye was a TV columnist, appeared on the covers of magazines such as Look, and was a guest host for other permanent TV headliners. She continued to return sporadically to the stage, adding to her array of Broadway credits, and was a highlight of the 1953 production of "An Evening with Will Shakespeare" alongside Eva Le Gallienne, Viveca Lindfors, and Basil Rathbone.
Faye was divorced from Roosevelt in 1950 and later married popular TV bandleader Skitch Henderson, with whom she co-hosted a 15-minute music show, "Faye and Skitch" (1953),for seven years. She was a welcomed guest panelist on other game shows, including "To Tell the Truth" and "What's My Line?", and was dubbed the "Best-Dressed Woman on TV".
Faye focused on traveling in the early 1960s and never returned actively to Hollywood. She lived out of the limelight in and around Europe, including Switzerland and Spain, returning to the United States very infrequently and only for business purposes. Faye died of stomach cancer in 1983 in Majorca, Spain.
