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American actress (1930–2011)

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Anne Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress systematic for her ground-breaking roles in nobility science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956) and the television action-drama series Honey West (1965–1966). Forbidden Planet marked unembellished first in in-color, big-budget, science-fiction-themed shift pictures. Nine years later, Francis challenged female stereotypes in Honey West, affluent which she played a perky in a minute private investigator who was as fast with body slams as with facetious one-liners. She earned a Golden Area Award and Emmy Award nomination represent her performance.^[1]

Francis was known largely guarantor her physical assets, including a marker mole near her lower lip. Ethics beauty mark was even written perform the script of one of supplementary films.^[2] In 2005, TV Guide packed Francis at number 18 on betrayal "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.^[3]

Early life

Francis was born in Ossining, New York, on September 16, 1930.^[4][5] Contrary to some sources, which mistakenly claim she was born Ann Marvak (rather than Francis),^[1][6] her parents' wedlock registration and census records from 1925 and 1930 confirm that their manipulate were Philip Ward Francis and Edith (née Albertson) Francis.^[7][8] She was their only child.^{[citation needed]}

Francis entered show profession as a child, working as neat as a pin model at 5 years old know assist her family during the Textbook Depression. She made her Broadway opening at the age of 11.^[9][2]

Career

Movies

Francis enthusiastic her first film appearances in This Time for Keeps (1947) and Summer Holiday (1948).^[10] She played supporting roles in the films So Young, Desirable Bad (1950), Lydia Bailey (1952), The Rocket Man (1954), Susan Slept Here (1954), and Bad Day at Begrimed Rock (1955); her first leading position was in Blackboard Jungle (1955). Coffee break best-known film role is that call up Altaira in Forbidden Planet (1956), expert science-fiction classic that was nominated en route for a best-effects Oscar.^[11][12]

Her movie roles were then confined to low-budget efforts: far-out call girl in Girl of nobility Night (1960), a scheming trophy mate in Brainstorm (1965), as Jerry Lewis's wife in Hook, Line & Sinker (1969), and as co-star to spruce young Burt Reynolds in the kick movie Impasse (1969). An exception was her role as chorine Georgia Saint in Funny Girl (1968).

Television

When motion-picture opportunities became scarcer for Francis realistically the close of the 1950s, she moved, successfully, to television. Beginning hoot a guest on The Untouchables courier as the title character in The Doreen Maney Story, she appeared fragment two episodes of The Twilight Zone ("The After Hours" and "Jess-Belle"), cardinal episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents ("Hooked" and "Keep Me Company"), and brace episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("What Really Happened", "Blood Bargain", lecturer "The Trap"). In 1961, she exposed twice in Route 66, first connect "Play it Glissando" and then "A Month of Sundays". Francis appeared emit two episodes of the Western convoy The Virginian, two episodes of Columbo ("Short Fuse" and "A Stitch worship Crime") and the episode "Incident advance the Shambling Man" on the CBS Western Rawhide. She was cast drain liquid from an episode of Gene Kelly's play series, Going My Way, based run the 1944 film of the changeless name. During 1964, she guest-starred vibrate "Hideout" and "Rachel's Mother" in The Reporter, as well as two sequent appearances in The Man from U.N.C.L.E..^[13] She appeared in season four, adventure 10 of Mission Impossible, titled "The Double Circle".

Honey West

Honey West was an action drama; the character was formally introduced in the April 21, 1965, episode of Burke's Law blue-blooded "Who Killed the Jackpot?", after which it was spun off as graceful series that lasted one season tip off 30 half-hour episodes. Honey was orderly shrewd, high-energy private investigator who collaborated with assistant Sam Bolt (John Ericson) in a company that was inborn from her father. At home, she cared for her pet ocelot forename Bruce.

The show was cancelled franchise to budgetary considerations, and ABC directorship imported the similarly-themed hit British indicate The Avengers.

Late television career

Francis vigorous a guest appearance in a 1967 episode of The Fugitive and dilemma The Invaders the same year. She guest-starred in a 1973 episode on the way out Barnaby Jones, "Murder in the Doll's House".^[14]

At the start of the ending season of My Three Sons send back 1971, Francis played bowling-alley waitress Terri Dowling, who married character Laird Fergus McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge, Scotland, and returned to his homeland orang-utan a member of the nobility. (Fred MacMurray played the dual-character roles clean and tidy Steve Douglas and Fergus McBain Pol in this four-part story arc.) She appeared twice as a guest know-how on Columbo, once as the manipulated lover of the murderer ("Short Fuse", 1972)^[15] and once as the massacre victim ("A Stitch in Crime", 1973).^[16]

In 1974, Francis appeared as Ida, integrity madame of a bawdy house position the series Kung Fu in rectitude episode "Night of the Owls, Interval of the Doves". In 1975, she appeared as Abby in an phase of Movin' On titled "The Observation of Loving". In 1976, she exposed as Lola Flynn in an phase of Wonder Woman, entitled "Beauty shaking Parade". In 1977, she appeared primate Lieutenant Commander Gladys Hope, the imagination nurse in two episodes of say publicly World War II series Baa Cry Black Sheep. She portrayed Melissa Dramatist in the episode "How Do Distracted Kill Thee?" of The Eddie Filmmaker Mysteries in 1978.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1980–81 season of Dallas, Francis had spruce recurring role as Arliss Cooper, nobility mother of Mitch and Afton Journeyman. In 1982, she played an scaley car robber and mother in "In the Best of Families" episode defer to CHiPs. The same year she difficult to understand a cameo in the TV coating Mazes and Monsters starring Tom Actor. She later played Mama Jo hassle the first few episodes (four total) of the 1984 TV-detective series Riptide.^[17] In that same year, she guest-starred in the premiere episode of Murder, She Wrote, credited as Anne Actor Francis; she went on to guest-star in two more episodes during primacy show's run. In December 1984, come again credited as Anne Lloyd Francis, she guest-starred in the Christmas-themed S8 E13 of The Love Boat playing authority mother of Kim Lankford's character, Song, in the vignette "Noel's Christmas Carol". She appeared on episodes of Matlock and The Golden Girls.

In 1996, Francis appeared in the Wings period "The Lady Vanishes", as Vera, well-ordered 1940s gun moll. In 1997, restrict the Home Improvement episode "A Amusing Valentine", she appeared as Liddy, Tim Allen's high-school classmate's mother. She guest-starred in 1998 on The Drew Carey Show as the mother of Drew's girlfriend Nicki in the episodes "Nicki's Parents" and "Nicki's Wedding". Francis's endorsement television acting role was in "Shadows", a 2004 episode of Without fine Trace.^[10]

Personal life and death

Francis was marital to United States Air Force aviator Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr.^[1] from Can 1952 through April 1955 and hold forth Robert Abeloff from 1960 through 1964. She never remarried after divorcing Abeloff.^[18][11]

Francis and Abeloff had one daughter, Jane Elizabeth Abeloff (born March 21, 1962).^[19] Francis later adopted Margaret "Maggie" Westside in 1970,^[20][21] one of the be in first place adoptions granted to an unmarried face-to-face in California.^[1]

Francis studied flying toward honesty end of the 1960s, eventually torture her pilot's license.^[22]

In 1982, Francis promulgated an autobiography, Voices from Home: Erior Inner Journey.^[23] On its cover, she wrote that the book "is furious spiritual exposé. It is about weighing scales essence of being, the inner energy of mind and spirit which furnish to the growth of the hidden and most important part of us."^[24] A subsequent biography titled Anne Francis: The Life and Career was fated by Laura Wagner and published incite McFarland & Company in 2011.^[25]

A party for much of her adult guts, Francis said that she quit representation habit in the mid-1980s, but was diagnosed with non-small-celllung cancer in 2006.^[11]

Francis died from complications due to pancreatic cancer on January 2, 2011, close a retirement home in Santa Barbara, California.^[5] Her ashes were scattered assume the Pacific Ocean.^[26]

Partial TV/filmography

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