Married in 1944. Roosevelt is a war hero. The couple live in the White House for a short time and Emerson gives up her Hollywood career. The two go together to the Soviet Union at one point and get an interview with Stalin. Emerson and Eleanor Roosevelt get along very well.
(3 December 1944 - 17 January 1950) (divorced) 2 children
Howard Hughes was instrumental in bringing the two together when Colonel Roosevelt visited the Hughes Aircraft Company to evaluate the proposed Hughes XF-11. Though Elliott was married, Faye and he linked up, strongly urged on by the generous efforts of Hughes and his social facilitator, Johnny Meyer. Faye later asserted that despite her doubts, Hughes urged her to advance the relationship, and she knew that she could not defy Hughes. In December 1944, Hughes and Meyer provided the funding and airplanes for Faye's and Elliott's well-publicized marriage at the rim of the Grand Canyon. When Elliott went back to Europe, he named his reconnaissance aircraft "My Faye."
The intelligent and mannered Faye was very popular in the White House, and kept up a warm connection with Eleanor Roosevelt and the rest of the family even after her split with Elliott.
After some months in Beverly Hills in 1945, the couple resided with Eleanor Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N.Y. They had no children. The marriage began breaking up by 1947. In December 1948, Faye Emerson slit her wrists and was briefly hospitalized. In January 1950, Faye obtained a divorce in Cuernavaca, Mexico.