Julia Faye
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Julia Faye in Stars of the Photoplay (1924)
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| Born |
Julia Faye Maloney September 24, 1892 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | April 6, 1966 (aged 73) Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Resting place | Hollywood Forever Cemetery |
| Other names | Julia Faye Covell Julia Faye Wallick Julia Faye Merrill |
| Alma mater | Illinois State University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1915–1957 |
| Spouse(s) |
Harold Leroy Wallick (m. 1913) Walter Anthony Merrill (m. 1935; div. 1936) |
| Partner(s) | Cecil B. DeMille |
Julia Faye (September 24, 1892 – April 6, 1966) was an American actress of silent and sound films. She was known for her appearances in more than 30 Cecil B. DeMille productions. Her various roles ranged from maids and ingénues to vamps and queens.
She was "famed throughout Hollywood for her perfect legs" until her performance in Cecil B. DeMille's The Volga Boatman (1926) established her as "one of Hollywood's popular leading ladies."
Faye was born Julia Faye Maloney at her grandmother's home near Richmond, Virginia. Her father, Robert J. Maloney (born c. 1865), worked for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Her mother, Emma Louise Elliott (1872-1955), was from New Castle, Indiana. Her parents had married in 1890 in Newton, Harvey County, Kansas. Faye's paternal grandfather, Thomas Maloney, was born in Ireland and had immigrated to the United States in the 1850s.
Faye's father died sometime before 1901, when her widowed mother married Cyrus Demetrios Covell (1862-1941) in Indiana. Faye took her stepfather's name and listed him as her father.
She had lived in St. Louis, Missouri, prior to coming to Hollywood in 1915, to visit friends. She visited one of the film studios and was introduced to actor and director Christy Cabanne. The two reminisced about St. Louis and discovered that they had lived next door to one another there. Cabanne persuaded Faye's reluctant mother to allow her to be in motion pictures.
Faye made her debut in silent films with bit roles in Martyrs of the Alamo and The Lamb, both directed by Christy Cabanne for Triangle Film Corporation in 1915. Her first credited and important role was as Dorothea opposite DeWolf Hopper's Don Quixote in the 1915 Fine Arts adaptation of the famous Miguel de Cervantes novel. Neil G. Caward, a reviewer for the film journal Motography, wrote, in his review of Don Quixote, that "both Fay Tincher as Dulcinea and Julia Faye as Dorothea add much enjoyment to the picture." Faye's growing popularity increased with her appearances in several Keystone comedies, including A Movie Star, His Auto Ruination, His Last Laugh, Bucking Society, The Surf Girl, and A Lover's Might, all released in 1916. She also worked for D. W. Griffith, who gave her a minor role in Intolerance (1916).
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