Trivia

Committed suicide by jumping from window.

Wrote a jungle story that was published - "Fauna of the Wolves" (1946). She hoped it might have been turned into a movie but it never panned out.

Screen and vaudeville actress.

Estranged from songwriter Sanford H. Dickinson at the time of her suicide in 1956.

In October 1938, Bacon sued rival fan dancer Sally Rand for $375,000 in damages for stealing her "fan dance" act after Rand worked for Bacon as her fan holder while Bacon was performing at the Nils Granlund revue in 1930. Rand denied Bacon's accusations and claimed that Bacon was just jealous and that the fan idea was as "old as Cleopatra".

She was arrested in 1939 for disorderly conduct after staging a nude publicity stunt on Park Avenue.

In June of 1948 she suffered a nervous breakdown after suing a carnival owner for unpaid wages. A few years later she was homeless and living on the streets of Seattle.

When rival dancer Sally Rand starting doing her own fan dance Faith sued her claiming she had stolen the idea.

Bad press hurt her reputation and by the time she was thirty her career was over. Faith would spend the next decade dancing in strip clubs and carnivals across the country. She also danced semi-nude in some short films.

In 1936 Faith was seriously injured when she fell during a performance. She sued the owners of the show for $100,000 although she eventually settled the case for much less.