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Alice Faye A Life Beyond the Silver Screen by Jane Lenz Elder and Publisher University Press of Mississippi. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9781604735864, 1604735864. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9781604739794, 1604739797. Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen by Jane Lenz Elder. BOOKS OF INTEREST. DEVOTED SOLELY TO THE LIFE AND CAREER OF. ALICE FAYE: 1. The Films of Alice Faye aka The Alice Faye Movie Book. The Films of Alice Faye by W. Franklyn Moshier, First Edition, 1971, self-published by author. Hard back, royal blue fabric cover with gold-leaf signature of Alice Faye. Plain white parchment dust jacket. One of the best and most accurate books of its kind ever published. Contains story synopses, credits and cast for each film, over 250 illustrations, candid reviews, advertising posters, and sheet music covers. Highly praised. The Films of Alice Faye by W. Franklyn Moshier, Second Edition, 1972, self-published by author. Hard back, royal blue fabric cover with gold- leaf signature of Alice Faye. Dust jacket, black and white portrait of Alice Faye from "Lillian Russell." Added for this edition: color photo of Alice Faye, discography, section entitled "The Many Faces of Alice Faye" containing many photos. Same high quality as first edition. The Alice Faye Movie Book by W. Franklyn Moshier. Published 1974 by Stackpole Books with permission of author. Hard back dark blue cover with gold print. Dust jacket, black and white portrait of Alice Faye from "The Gang's All Here" with pink and white background. The contents of this book are the same as the Second Edition above with the exception of a full-page black and white portrait of Alice Faye and John Payne in "Good News" being inserted to replace the color portrait in the Second Edition. The Alice Faye Movie Book by W. Franklyn Moshier. Published 1975 by A & W Visual Library with permission of author. Paperback with black and white 1930s portrait of Alice Faye on cover, black and pink trim. Back cover has full-length portrait of subject from "In Old Chicago." Contents same as The Alice Faye Movie Book in hard back above. 2. Alice Faye: A Bio-Bibliography by Barry Rivadue. Published 1990 by Greenwood Press. Hard back plain black cover, white printing framed with purple. Contains the following sections: biography, filmography, discography, broadcasting, stage, annotated bibliography, song sheets, and product endorsements. Over one dozen photos used throughout. Contains a wealth of information but is loaded with inaccuracies and omissions, so it is highly unreliable . The author was more interested in getting it done now than getting it done right. A lost opportunity. We are embarrassed to have been associated with it. 3. Growing Older, Staying Young by Alice Faye with Dick Kleiner. Published 1990 by Dutton. Hard back with dust jacket, gold with photo of Alice Faye in red sweatsuit. Alice offers health tips for living a rewarding life and includes many anecdotes about her fabulous days as a top star in the golden age of Hollywood. Great photo section. 4. Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen by Jane Lenz Elder. Published 2002 by University Press of Mississippi. Hard back with dust jacket, black and white early 1930s photo of Alice Faye with blue trim; black and white early 1930s photo of Alice on the back. Film historian Jane Lenz Elder conducted interviews with Alice’s family, friends, and fans, consulted leading oral history collections, and dug through archives in California, New York, and Linton, Indiana (home to the Phil Harris-Alice Faye Collection), to create the most compelling, comprehensive, and accurate depiction of Faye’s life yet published. This is the first in-depth biography written on Alice Faye, and it is a worthy companion to the much heralded “The Films of Alice Faye” by W. Franklyn Moshier. January 2013 - The paperback version of this book has now been published. It has the same front and back covers and contents as the hardback edition. Portrait of a private woman: the real Alice Faye. Alice Faye, who died at 83 in 1998, was a cherished star of Hollywood musicals in the late 1930s and early ‘40s who stayed in the public eye almost until her death, even though she walked out on a flourishing movie career in 1945. A beautiful blue-eyed blond with a stunning figure, a warm personality and low singing voice, she brought a sultry quality to the screen. In a mere six years at 20th Century Fox, Faye became America’s No. 1 female box office star. Her talent and natural appeal shone through formulaic Fox musicals like “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Rose of Washington Square,” “Lillian Russell” and “Tin Pan Alley.” When Faye married the brash bandleader-comedian Phil Harris, Hollywood said it wouldn’t last, but the couple, who had two daughters, had been happily married 54 years when he died in 1995 at age 90. They were a handsome pair who aged gracefully and left their friends and fans with fond memories. Jane Lenz Elder’s illuminating “Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen” is not the standard movie star biography dripping with nostalgia and shameless heart-tugging. It is a full-length portrait of an essentially private woman long on common sense and inner strength, one who was grateful for the opportunities that came her way and who learned over time how to stand up for herself. Alice Jeane Leppert was born on May 5, 1915, in a cold-water flat in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen. Her father was a policeman, and her mother took factory jobs to help support their daughter and two older sons. Faye told musical historian Miles Kreuger bluntly that “if you were pretty, and you grew up on Double Fifth Avenue, you either hit the stage or the streets.” She got her first job at 12 working in the dressing room at a dancing school; the next year, lying about her age, she landed in the chorus of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, moved on to the Capitol Theater and caught the attention of radio star-restaurateur Niles T. Granlund. At 17 Faye got her first taste of celebrity as a singer on Rudy Vallee’s popular radio program. Vallee became her mentor, which incited his wife’s jealousy, and for the rest of her life she denied having an affair with him. Radio singing stardom led to an offer from Fox in 1934. Elder makes clear that Darryl F. Zanuck was quick to exploit Faye’s popularity; she once called the studio Penitentiary Fox. Elder suggests that a turning point in Faye’s life and career occurred when she fell in love with fellow Fox contractee Tony Martin and married him in 1937, just when her career was at its busiest. He was often on the road, and the Martins were together only eight months of their 28-month marriage. Although Faye would never say more than “the marriage simply didn’t work out,” Elder writes that Faye took the failure of the marriage hard, and began to question her priorities and resist Zanuck’s demands. Even though she became determined to put her second marriage first, she continued with her career. She had gotten her big break as a dramatic actress when Jean Harlow, who was to star in Fox’s “In Old Chicago” on loan from MGM, died at age 26. Faye saw her chance in Otto Preminger’s murder mystery “Fallen Angel,” in which she played a small-town heiress almost past her prime, but Zanuck, with whom she sparred increasingly over the years, cut her part drastically to build up newcomer Linda Darnell. Faye took one look at the finished film, wrote Zanuck an unprintable note and left the studio, not to return for more than 15 years, an act unheard of for a star in Hollywood’s golden age. Elder writes that the resilient Faye may have disappeared from the screen but not to the obscurity of domesticity, as important as that became to her. The next year she returned to radio, and she and Harris did a weekly program until 1954. Elder regrets that Faye did not do more recording. (Faye’s unforgettable rendition of “You’ll Never Know” became a World War II anthem.) During the next decades, Faye performed occasionally and in 1973 returned to the stage in a revival of the musical “Good News.” In the 1980s she became a spokeswoman for Pfizer. Elder allows us to see that Faye was indeed “an elegant lady whose greatest riches were her friends, fans and daughters and who gave her audiences much to enjoy.” Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen by Jane Lenz Elder. New Alice Faye Biography Available. (The IJBFC has no financial connection with this book or the author. just figured that you might be interested in reading it.) Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen. by Jane Lenz Elder. Fans of vintage radio and movies need no introduction to the sweet demeanor, sultry glances, and velvety voice of Alice Faye. Her haunting rendition of "You'll Never Know" has never been surpassed by any other singer. Her films, such as Alexander's Ragtime Band, Tin Pan Alley, and The Gang's All Here, remain perennial favorites on classic movie channels and at video rental outlets. Her radio show, with her husband Phil Harris, and her frequent guest appearances on the Jack Benny Show, live on in the cassette collections popular with radio devotees. Now for the first time, fans of the fabulous Faye can enjoy a full-scale biography of the beloved star. Four years in the making, Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen, is being published by the University of Mississippi Press (available in October) as part of its Hollywood Legends series. Film historian Jane Lenz Elder conducted interviews with Alice's friends and family, consulted leading oral history collections, and dug through archives in California, New York, and Linton, Indiana (home to the Phil Harris-Alice Faye Collection), to create the most compelling, comprehensive, and accurate depiction of Faye's life yet published. Beginning life in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York, Alice Faye went from an adolescent chorus girl in the 1920s to one of Hollywood's top box office draws of the 1930s and 1940s. Populating her life were such luminaries as Don Ameche, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Betty Grable, Jack Haley, Phil Harris, John Payne, Tyrone Power, Tony Martin, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vall�e, and the ruthless studio mogul, Darryl F. Zanuck. Alice met success in the early days of broadcast radio and in Hollywood's golden age. She also endured setbacks, scandals and, above all, the challenges of the big studio system. She faced life squarely with humor and determination, and eventually emerged as one of Hollywood's most graceful survivors. Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen is a must read for any Faye fan. Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen by Jane Lenz Elder Available October 2002 6x9 inches, 256 pages 25 black & white illustrations filmography, bibliography, index ISBN 1-57806-210-1. Looking back on a legend. Among the thick, hunter green reference books in Bridwell Library, a thin catalog is shelved neatly in the back corner. Featured on the cover is Bridwell librarian Jane Lenz Elder’s new book, “Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen.” The Bridwell reference librarian, SMU alum and employee for 19 years, has written the first complete biography of Alice Faye, a successful 1930s film star. It was released this month. Elder was introduced to Faye’s work through a movie marathon on television. “I’d never paid too much attention to her before. She just struck me as someone who was really talented. I wondered why she wasn’t as well known today as some of the other stars.” Elder’s opportunity to explore Faye’s life came in 1998 when history professor Ron Davis approached her to write for the Hollywood Legends Series for the University Press of Mississippi. “It had to be somebody who was extremely popular in their day. Somebody who hadn’t had a biography written about them before because the last thing they want is a biography of Marilyn Monroe,” Elder said. Faye began her film career in 1933 and within a few years became 20th Century Fox’s leading lady. She was the No. 1 box office attraction in 1940. She starred in musicals such as “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” and was more popular than Bette Davis. But in the midst of her success, she walked out on her contract. She didn’t like how studio bosses were handling her career, and she took control of it. Elder said reneging on a contract was virtually unheard of at that time. If you’re looking for something like “E! True Hollywood Story,” you’re not going to find it in this book. Its purpose was to examine Faye’s life and put it in a historical context. “I thought that was going to limit the audience a lot. People want scandal, murder and mayhem,” Elder said, “I don’t enjoy that sort of stuff.” She said Faye was a nice person that stood up for herself. She shows that it’s still possible to be your own person and have a Hollywood career. “It’s always nice to read about someone who is a genuine person, who has self-doubts yet pursues and conquers any fears. I think Jane Lenz Elder did a phenomenal job of capturing the essence of Alice Faye in her biography,” said George Ulrich, creator of the official Alice Faye Web site. Of the near 600 manuscripts submitted each year to the University Press of Mississippi, Elder’s work was among the few chosen for publication. “We thought it was very well written and extremely well researched. The big advantage is she did have the cooperation of the family, friends and people who were willing to talk about Alice Faye,” Seetha Srinivasan, the University Press of Mississippi director, said. Elder’s research began with reading standard histories of cinema and the biographies of those who had worked with Faye. Her search took her to Linton, Ind. the hometown of Faye’s husband, famous bandleader and comedian Phil Harris. Harris donated their memorabilia to the town. Elder also traveled to Los Angeles, Calif. for interviews with Faye’s daughters. She conducted more research at the Motion Picture Academy library as well. “[It’s] unbelievable. You walk in and it’s like doing research in the church of film,” she said. While writing the book, Elder worked full-time and pursued her master’s degree in library science. From proposal to publication, the process took four years. “It felt kind of strange at first. It took awhile for me to get used to the idea that ‘Oh, that’s my book now. That’s what I’ve been working for’ because you spend four years looking at a really fat term paper,” she said. The book, which was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times , got the California native e-mails and congratulations from her former schoolmates. “It is so fun. I’m waiting for the e-mail from that one girl that wasn’t very nice to me in ninth grade,” she said jokingly. Elder is currently working on her next book for the series featuring Basil Rathbone, most known for his role as Sherlock Holmes. These works are a far cry from Elder’s previous book “Trading in Santa Fe: John M. Kingsbury’s Correspondence with James Josiah Webb,” an economic study of the 19th century West. ” Well, I don’t like to do the same thing over and over,” Elder said.