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Fallen Angel (1945)

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• While on their date, Dana Andrews and Alice Faye exit a movie theater and walk past a Rexall Pharmacy. Beginning less than a year after the film was released, Faye would co-star on a weekly radio show with her husband Phil Harris, sponsored by Rexall.
  
  
• Dana Andrews did the commentary on the trailer.
  
  
• Linda Darnell spent a week working as a waitress in the Fox Commissary to prepare her for her role.
  
  

• Alice Faye's on-screen rendition of "Slowly" (music by David Raksin, lyrics by Kermit Goell) was cut from this film. The song is heard sung off camera by the "radio voice" of Dick Haymes, as waitress Linda Darnell works behind the counter. Decca's commercial single of Dick's song is featured on a CD box set from the British label Jasmine, entitled "The Golden Years of Dick Haymes."
  
  
• Unhappy with the film as released, Alice Faye believed that Otto Preminger's editing had diminished the impact of her performance, and that the director had "thrown" the picture to Linda Darnell.
  
  
• Alice Faye, married to Phil Harris and raising two young daughters, then tiring after nearly a dozen years of hectic moving-making, and disappointed with the outcome of this release, chose to leave Twentieth Century-Fox before her contract expired. Eventually, she would return to work at the studio once, playing the mother role in a bland filming of Rodgers and Hammerstein's State Fair (1962). Originally, Miss Faye had turned down the band-singer part in the more satisfying 1945 version.
  
  

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