Faith claimed to have created much of the direction and stage business
for her character "Miss Mazeppa" in the original Broadway production of
Gypsy in 1959. She subsequently sued producer David Merrick to receive
credit and financial compensation for doing so. This led Broadway
producers to insert a clause in actors' contracts indicating that any
stage business created by the actor in the course of production became
the sole property of the production. This is know as the "Faith Dane
clause" and to this day is generally included in all actors' contracts
for Broadway shows.
