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Faith Bacon
Person

Faith Bacon

Specialty
Acting
Birth
July 19, 1910 · 46 years
Death
September 26, 1956

Professional Trajectory

Showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. once billed her as "the most beautiful girl in the world". Burlesque dancer Faith Bacon, and not the much better known Sally Rand who worked for Bacon in the early 1930s, is genuinely considered the lady who originated the "fan dance" during "The Jazz Age".

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