Bacon, Faith (1909–1956)
Bacon, Faith (1909–1956)
American dancer and performer. Born 1909 in Los Angeles, California; committed suicide, Sept 26, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois; trained with Albertina Rasch.
Debuted on Broadway as a model in Artists and Models (1925); appeared as a showgirl in Earl Carroll's Vanities (1925–30) and in the last edition of the Ziegfeld Follies (1931); performed as an interpretive dancer (1932–35) and became a strip-tease artist in burlesque (1935); created numerous works, including Bird of Paradise, The Afternoon of a Faun (unrelated to Fokine's) and Dance of the Living Orchids (1935–39) with which she headlined the World's Fair Congress of Beauty in NY and later performed versions on Paramount/Publix Circuit; appeared in film Prison Train (1938).
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