Faye Emerson was an American film actress and television interviewer, known as "The First Lady of Television". A Warner Brothers contract allowed to start making films in 1941, but her career was brief and she moved to television in 1948, and began acting in various anthology series such as 'Goodyear Television Playhouse'.
Her chief fame was that she hosted or appeared on many talk shows, invariably wearing long, low-cut gowns ...... and that's why she is here, cos she had the first
wardrobe malfunction in television history (ala Janet Jackson at the superbowl -
5:28 of this Video Clip) when, according to 'The Book of TV Lists' by Gabe Essoe, on one the show's segments, her low-cut gown slipped and "
she exposed her ample self coast to coast."
In 1948, while she was married to Elliott Roosevelt (son of the President), she was rushed to a doctor's office with a
'self-inflicted razor slash to the wrist', she's referred to Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie and released two days later. The Roosevelts claimed it was an '
accident'.
In October 1955 she was reported as having beaten up two drunks who annoyed her in a New York bar ....
Trivia:
- Emerson was so popular in the early 1950s, it was rumored that the newly created 'Emmy' Award was named after her - she retired to Majorca, Spain in 1958, where she allows herself to grow fat. She writes her memoirs, which are never published, and ages ungracefully
- Expense accounts of Howard Hughes's press agent, when investigated by a Senate committee, reveal $132 for nylons charged to her ..... hmm.
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