- Feeling she had given one of the best dramatic performances of her career, Faye was so upset by Darryl F. Zanuck's editing hack job on Fallen Angel (1945), in order to benefit newcomer Linda Darnell, that she literally walked away from the studio and didn't return for 16 years.
- She introduced almost twice as many hit parade songs in her movies (23) as each of her closest competitors: Judy Garland (13), Betty Grable (12) and Doris Day (12).
- She remained quite good friends with her 20th Century Fox rival and successor, Betty Grable, up until Grable's death of cancer on July 2, 1973.
- She referred to her home studio as "Penitentiary Fox".
- She was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), which went to Vivien Leigh.
- Made herself three years older when she was auditioning as a chorus girl in New York in 1928. Some sources even claim that she was born in 1909. A short biography included on the DVD of On the Avenue (1937) states that she was 12 years old in 1927, and did indeed lie about her age in 1928.
- Had two daughters: Alice Harris (born May 19, 1942) and Phyllis Harris (born Caesarian section April 26, 1944).
- Following her death, she was interred with her husband Phil Harris at Forest Lawn Mausoleum in Cathedral City, California (near Palm Springs).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 199-200. New York: Oxford University Press (2002).
- Alice Faye had to drop out of "Down Argentine Way" due to appendicitis and was replaced by Betty Grable.
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