American cabaret singer Frances Faye was BOTD in 1912. Born Frances Cohen in Brooklyn, New York City to a working-class family, she showed an early talent for music, and was singing professionally in nightclubs by her teens. She made her first solo recording in 1936, appearing the following year in the Bing Crosby film Double or Nothing, singing the hit song After You. She became a fixture of the Manhattan and Chicago nightclub scene, with sultry jazz-inflected delivery and frequently-dropped innuendos hinting at her lesbianism. She relocated to Los Angeles in the 1950s, recording a series of albums with Capitol Records and adopting a more androgynous appearance. Her Las Vegas shows attracted celebrity fans including Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope, and she toured successfully in Europe and Australia. Garland’s gay husband Peter Allen credited her as a major influence on his career, and invited her to sing Just a Gigolo on his 1976 album Continental American. After two brief marriages in the 1940s, Faye had a 30-year professional and romantic partnership with her manager Teri Shepherd. In 1978, Louis Malle cast her as a coke-snorting brothel madam in his film Pretty Baby. She died in 1991 aged 79. Her life, career and relationship was profiled in Bruce Weber’s 2001 documentary film Chop Suey, featuring an extended interview with Shepherd.