Julia Faye

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Julia Faye (1920)

Julia Faye Maloney (born September 24, 1892 in Richmond , Virginia , † April 6, 1966 in Pacific Palisades , California ) was an American film actress.

life and career

Julia Faye's father was a railroad worker with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and died in her childhood. She lived in St. Louis until the film director Christy Cabanne saw her while visiting friends in Hollywood in 1915 . This persuaded her to enter the film business and let her appear in his flick The Lamb . A little later she played Dorothea in a silent film version of Don Quixote . She also worked for Keystone Studios several times in her early career . Faye is best known for her 40 years and over 30 film productions working together with the director Cecil B. DeMille , which lasted from her first film in 1917 to DeMille's last film project King of the Buccaneers. She played in more DeMille films than any other actress and was at times the director's lover in private. In The Ten Commandments (1923) she played, for example, the wife of the Pharaoh in King of Kings (1927) she was Martha of Bethany . Faye also starred in some films, such as the DeMille-produced comedy Turkish Delight , which was successful in 1927.

Faye initially succeeded in making sound films with a major supporting role in DeMille's Dynamit (1929). In the early 1930s she withdrew into private life and married the screenwriter Walter Merrill in 1935. It was Faye's second marriage, her first husband Harold Leroy Wallick, whom she married in 1913, had died. In 1936 she divorced Merrill and returned to the film business, but was no longer in demand and only received offers for smaller roles. Cecil B. DeMille gave her appearances in his films from Union Pacific (1939), the greatest role of her later career probably taking place here in 1949: in Samson and Delilah she played the servant of Delilah portrayed by Hedy Lamarr . In the remake of The Ten Commandments in 1956, she played Elisheba, Aaron's wife . She last appeared in 1963 as a guest actress in the television series Perry Mason .

From the mid-1940s she worked on an autobiography that has not been published until today and is now kept at Brigham Young University . Film historian Scott Eyman quoted Faye's notes for his 2010 biography Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille . Julia Faye died of cancer in 1966 at the age of 73, and her remains were interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery . She was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her film work .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julia Faye - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Julia Faye | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Scott Eyman: Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille . Simon and Schuster, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4391-8041-9 ( google.de [accessed April 8, 2018]).
  4. ^ Julia Faye - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Faye, Julia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1966
Place of death Pacific Palisades , California