Faye Emerson

Faye Emerson

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.

  • Title: Faye Emerson
  • Popularity: 0.4137
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1917-07-08
  • Place of Birth: Elizabeth, Louisana, USA
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  • Also Known As: Faye Margaret Emerson
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Faye Emerson Movies

  • 1941
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    Manpower

    Manpower

    6.7 1941 HD

    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.

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  • 1943
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    Destination Tokyo

    Destination Tokyo

    6.8 1943 HD

    During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.

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  • 1942
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    Lady Gangster

    Lady Gangster

    5.548 1942 HD

    An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.

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  • 1944
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    Between Two Worlds

    Between Two Worlds

    7 1944 HD

    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.

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  • 1946
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    Nobody Lives Forever

    Nobody Lives Forever

    6.2 1946 HD

    A con artist falls for the rich widow he's trying to fleece.

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  • 1944
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    The Mask of Dimitrios

    The Mask of Dimitrios

    6.9 1944 HD

    A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead 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.

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  • 1943
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    The Hard Way

    The Hard Way

    6.3 1943 HD

    Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

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  • 1945
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    Danger Signal

    Danger Signal

    5.8 1945 HD

    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.

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  • 1950
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    Guilty Bystander

    Guilty Bystander

    5.5 1950 HD

    A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.

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  • 1944
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    Hollywood Canteen

    Hollywood Canteen

    7.3 1944 HD

    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.

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  • 1946
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    Her Kind of Man

    Her Kind of Man

    5.9 1946 HD

    A nightclub singer can't choose between a charismatic small-time gangster and an honest newspaperman.

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  • 1944
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    Uncertain Glory

    Uncertain Glory

    6.8 1944 HD

    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.

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  • 1943
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    Find the Blackmailer

    Find the Blackmailer

    6.4 1943 HD

    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.

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  • 1941
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    Nine Lives Are Not Enough

    Nine Lives Are Not Enough

    5 1941 HD

    A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

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  • 1942
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    Wild Bill Hickok Rides

    Wild Bill Hickok Rides

    4.7 1942 HD

    The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

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  • 1943
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    Women at War

    Women at War

    6.4 1943 HD

    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.

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  • 1942
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    Juke Girl

    Juke Girl

    6.5 1942 HD

    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.

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  • 1944
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    Crime by Night

    Crime by Night

    6 1944 HD

    A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.

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  • 1942
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    Secret Enemies

    Secret Enemies

    5.2 1942 HD

    FBI agents Carl Becker and John Trent raid a New York hotel, sending Nazi spies to an upstate hunting lodge.

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  • 1942
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    Murder in the Big House

    Murder in the Big House

    6.5 1942 HD

    When a prisoner on Death Row is "accidentally" killed just before his execution, a reporter smells something fishy...

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  • 1945
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    Hotel Berlin

    Hotel Berlin

    5.846 1945 HD

    An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

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  • 1943
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    The Desert Song

    The Desert Song

    5.9 1943 HD

    Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

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  • 1944
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    The Very Thought of You

    The Very Thought of You

    6.2 1944 HD

    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.

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  • 1953
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    Main Street to Broadway

    Main Street to Broadway

    6.5 1953 HD

    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.

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  • 1941
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    The Nurse's Secret

    The Nurse's Secret

    5 1941 HD

    An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam.

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  • 1943
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    Air Force

    Air Force

    6.5 1943 HD

    The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

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  • 1941
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    At the Stroke of Twelve

    At the Stroke of Twelve

    5 1941 HD

    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.

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  • 1941
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    Bad Men of Missouri

    Bad Men of Missouri

    5.6 1941 HD

    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.

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  • 1941
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    Blues in the Night

    Blues in the Night

    6.2 1941 HD

    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.

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  • 1943
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    Food and Magic

    Food and Magic

    5 1943 HD

    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. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2008.

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  • 1944
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    In Our Time

    In Our Time

    6.4 1944 HD

    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.

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.8 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.

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  • 1959
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    The David Susskind Show

    The David Susskind Show

    5 1959 HD

    The David Susskind Show is an American television talk show hosted by David Susskind. The program began its existence in 1958 as Open End, and was broadcast by WNTA-TV in New York City. The title referred to the fact that the program continued until Susskind or his guests were too tired to continue late on a Sunday night.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1962
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    The Match Game

    The Match Game

    8.1 1962 HD

    In this panel game show, contestants try to match answers given by six celebrities to humorous and often risque fill-in-the-blank questions.

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.8 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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  • 1952
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    I've Got a Secret

    I've Got a Secret

    7.4 1952 HD

    A panel tries to determine a contestant's secret: something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing, or humorous about that person.

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  • 1950
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    Your Show of Shows

    Your Show of Shows

    6.3 1950 HD

    Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio and the soprano Marguerite Piazza. José Ferrer made several guest appearances on the series. The series was telecast from the now-demolished International Theatre at 5 Columbus Circle and the Century Theater, now demolished, in New York. During 2002, Your Show of Shows was ranked #30 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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  • 1948
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    The Philco Television Playhouse

    The Philco Television Playhouse

    6.3 1948 HD

    The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

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  • 1950
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    The Jack Benny Program

    The Jack Benny Program

    7.8 1950 HD

    Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.

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  • 1954
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    The George Gobel Show

    The George Gobel Show

    7.3 1954 HD

    The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.

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  • 1957
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    Tonight Starring Jack Paar

    Tonight Starring Jack Paar

    7 1957 HD

    Tonight Starring Jack Paar is an American talk show hosted by Jack Paar under The Tonight Show franchise from 1957 to 1962. It originally aired during late-night. During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B inside the RCA Building. The same studio would also host early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.926 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.926 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.

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