Faye Emerson

Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film and stage actress and television interviewer. She gained fame as a film actress in the 1940s before transitioning to television in the 1950s and hosting her own talk show. Emerson 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. Emerson married her first husband, William Wallace Crawford, Jr., a naval aviator, on October 29, 1938. The couple had a son, WilliamWallace "Scoop" Crawford, III, in 1940. Emerson and Roosevelt married on December 3, 1944, at the rim of Grand Canyon, where she was filming Hotel Berlin. Emerson formally retired from show business in 1963 and retired to Europe. She died in Spain in March 1983, after a long battle with stomach cancer. She was buried in a private ceremony at the National Shrine of the Marine Corps in Los Angeles, California. She is buried next to her husband, who died in 2005.