- Jewish-American cabaret artist, pianist, scat singer and performer of show tunes, often laced with sexual double entendres.
- Arrested in Los Angeles for possession of marijuana in 1955.
- Singer/actress.
- She starred in some Soundies musical short films in the early 1940s including "Keeping My Mouth Shut for Uncle Sam" (1942).
- She was a second cousin of actor Danny Kaye.
- Faye's showbiz career began at the age of 15 in nightclubs where she first became a star.
- Faye herself was bisexual and hinted at this frequently in her act; she would often playfully alter pronouns in love songs or weave her girlfriend's name into lyrics of song. For instance, she inserted "it's a Teri, Teri day" into "The Man I Love" and on national television sang "why do all the boys treat Teri so right" in "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.".
- She wrote the song "Well All Right" recorded by the Andrews Sisters.
- She recorded about a dozen albums for many different record labels, including Capitol Records and Imperial Records and jazz labels Verve Records and Bethlehem Records.
- Her act became famous for including double entendres and references to homosexuality and lesbianism.
- Faye made her solo recording debut in 1936.
- Peter Allen credited her as a major influence and had Faye sing the vocals on the track "Just a Gigolo (Schoner Gigolo)" on his 1974 album, Continental American.
- She returned to film in 1978, playing an elderly cocaine-sniffing madam in the Louis Malle film Pretty Baby. She retired shortly afterwards.
- In the late 1950s, a woman named Teri Shepherd became her manager and lifelong partner. Shepherd discussed her relationship with Faye in Bruce Weber's 2001 film Chop Suey.
- During the 1960s, Faye suffered a number of health related problems brought on by a hip accident in 1958. She nevertheless continued to tour into the early 1980s.
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