FRANCES C. FAYE - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/04/1954 - HFSID 281797
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FRANCES C. FAYE
AFTRA membership application signed by singer Frances Faye in
1954
Document signed "Frances C. Faye" in blue ink. Blue ink
notations in unknown hand. 2 pages, 6¼x9, 1 sheet, front and verso. June 4,
1954. Membership form for the American Federation of Television and Radio
Artists. Sassy, saucy and openly gay, American singer and songwriter Faye
(1912-1991) influenced nightclub singers like Lena Horne, Eartha Kitt and
Bette Midler with her double entendres, her powerful singing and her smoky
performances. (Despite this, she wasn't the most glamorous of women; she's
been quoted as describing herself this way: "I'm not pretty but I'm neat.
Meticulous. You could eat off me") She got her professional start as a pianist,
accompanying singers in nightclubs and on vaudeville and Broadway. Her singing
career started in the 1930s, and she continued headlining into the 1970s and
performing into the 1980s, singing bubbly pop along with more obscure songs that
made her a darling of jazz aficionados. Faye also wrote her own material and had
two hits in 1936: No Regrets and Well, All Right, the second a
hit when covered by the Andrews Sisters. She appeared in a total of two
movies: the 1937 Bing Crosby vehicle Double or Nothing and, more
appropriately, as a sharp-tongued, opium-puffing madam in 1978 Pretty
Baby, her only starring role. Lightly toned and creased. Light nicks in left
and right edges. Paper clip impression in top edge. Folded once vertically and
twice horizontally and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.
This image has been censored to conceal personal information depicted
in the image. The actual document does not have these concealing
marks.
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