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Anne Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress known for her ground-breaking roles in the

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'' (1956) and the television action-drama series '' Honey West'' (1965–1966). ''Forbidden Planet'' marked a first in in-color, big-budget, science-fiction-themed motion pictures. Nine years later, Francis challenged female stereotypes in ''Honey West'', in which she played a perky blonde private investigator who was as quick with body slams as with witty one-liners. She earned a

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and

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nomination for her performance. Francis was known largely for her physical assets, including a trademark mole near her lower lip. The beauty mark was even written into the script of one of her films. In 2005, ''

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'' ranked Francis at number 18 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list.

Early life

Francis was born in Ossining, New York, on September 16, 1930. Contrary to some sources, which erroneously claim she was born Ann Marvak (rather than Francis), her parents' marriage registration and census records from 1925 and 1930 confirm that their names were Philip Ward Francis and Edith (

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Albertson) Francis.Wagner, Laura. ''Anne Francis: The Life and Career'', McFarland & Company, 2011; . She was their only child. Francis entered show business as a child, working as a model at 5 years old to assist her family during the

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. She made her Broadway debut at the age of 11.Weaver, Tom. ''Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews'', p. 162 (McFarland & Company, 2003);

Career

Movies

Francis made her first film appearances in '' This Time for Keeps'' (1947) and '' Summer Holiday'' (1948). She played supporting roles in the films '' So Young, So Bad'' (1950), '' Lydia Bailey'' (1952), '' The Rocket Man'' (1954), '' Susan Slept Here'' (1954), and '' Bad Day at Black Rock'' (1955); her first leading role was in ''

Blackboard Jungle ''Blackboard Jungle'' is a 1955 American social drama film about an English teacher in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel ''The Blackboard Jungle'' by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brook ...

'' (1955). Her best-known film role is that of Altaira in ''

'' (1956), a science-fiction classic that was nominated for a best-effects Oscar. Her movie roles were then confined to low-budget efforts: a

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in '' Girl of the Night'' (1960), a scheming trophy wife in '' Brainstorm'' (1965), as

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's wife in '' Hook, Line & Sinker'' (1969), and as co-star to a young

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in the adventure movie ''

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'' (1969). An exception was her role as chorine Georgia James in '' Funny Girl'' (1968).

Television

When motion-picture opportunities became scarcer for Francis near the close of the 1950s, she moved, successfully, to television. Beginning as a guest on '' The Untouchables'' and as the title character in ''The Doreen Maney Story'', she appeared in two episodes of ''

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'' (" The After Hours" and " Jess-Belle"), two episodes of ''

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'' ("Hooked" and "Keep Me Company"), and three episodes of ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' ("What Really Happened", "Blood Bargain", and "The Trap"). In 1961, she appeared twice in '' Route 66'', first in "Play it Glissando" and then "A Month of Sundays". Francis appeared in two episodes of the Western series '' The Virginian'', two episodes of ''Columbo'' ("Short Fuse" and "A Stitch in Crime") and the episode "Incident of the Shambling Man" on the CBS Western '' Rawhide''. She was cast in an episode of

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's drama series, ''

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'', based on the 1944 film of the same name. During 1964, she guest-starred in "Hideout" and "Rachel's Mother" in '' The Reporter'', as well as two successive appearances in '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''. She appeared in season four, episode 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'' titled "Who Killed the Jackpot?", after which it was spun off as a series that lasted one season of 30 half-hour episodes. Honey was a shrewd, high-energy private investigator who collaborated with assistant Sam Bolt ( John Ericson) in a company that was inherited from her father. At home, she cared for her pet

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named Bruce. The show was cancelled due to budgetary considerations, and ABC executives imported the similarly-themed hit British show '' The Avengers''.

Late television career

Francis made a guest appearance in a 1967 episode of '' The Fugitive'' and in '' The Invaders'' the same year. She guest-starred in a 1973 episode of ''

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'', "Murder in the Doll's House". At the start of the final season of ''

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'' in 1971, Francis played bowling-alley waitress Terri Dowling, who married character Laird Fergus McBain Douglas of Sithian Bridge, Scotland, and returned to his homeland as a member of the nobility. (

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played the dual-character roles of Steve Douglas and Fergus McBain Douglas in this four-part story arc.) She appeared twice as a guest star on ''

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'', once as the manipulated lover of the murderer ( "Short Fuse", 1972) and once as the murder victim (" A Stitch in Crime", 1973). In 1974, Francis appeared as Ida, the madame of a bawdy house on the series ''

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'' in the episode "Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves". In 1975, she appeared as Abby in an episode of '' Movin' On'' titled "The Price of Loving". In 1976, she appeared as Lola Flynn in an episode of ''

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'', entitled "Beauty on Parade". In 1977, she appeared as Lieutenant Commander Gladys Hope, the head nurse in two episodes of the World War II series '' Baa Baa Black Sheep''. She portrayed Melissa Osborne in the episode "How Do I Kill Thee?" of '' The Eddie Capra Mysteries'' in 1978. During the 1980–81 season of ''

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'', Francis had a recurring role as Arliss Cooper, the mother of Mitch and Afton Cooper. In 1982, she played an armored car robber and mother in "In the Best of Families" episode of '' CHiPs''. The same year she had a cameo in the TV movie '' Mazes and Monsters'' starring

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. She later played Mama Jo in the first few episodes (four total) of the 1984 TV-detective series '' Riptide''. In that same year, she guest-starred in the premiere episode of ''

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'', credited as Anne Lloyd Francis; she went on to guest-star in two more episodes during the show's run. In December 1984, again credited as Anne Lloyd Francis, she guest-starred in the Christmas-themed S8 E13 of ''

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'' playing the mother of Kim Lankford's character, Carol, in the vignette "Noel's Christmas Carol". She appeared on episodes of '' Matlock'' and ''

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''. In 1996, Francis appeared in the '' Wings'' episode "The Lady Vanishes", as Vera, a 1940s gun moll. In 1997, in the ''

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'' episode "A Funny Valentine", she appeared as Liddy, Tim Allen's high-school classmate's mother. She guest-starred in 1998 on ''

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'' as the mother of Drew's girlfriend Nicki in the episodes "Nicki's Parents" and "Nicki's Wedding". Francis's final television acting role was in "Shadows", a 2004 episode of ''

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''.

Personal life and death

Francis was married to

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pilot Bamlet Lawrence Price Jr. from May 1952 through April 1955 and to Robert Abeloff from 1960 through 1964. She never remarried after divorcing Abeloff. Francis and Abeloff had one daughter, Jane Elizabeth Abeloff (born March 21, 1962).Michael, Paul and Parish, James Robert. ''The American Movies Reference Book: the Sound Era'', p. 110. (Celestial Arts), 1969; . Francis later adopted Margaret "Maggie" West in 1970, one of the first adoptions granted to an unmarried person in California. Francis studied flying toward the end of the 1960s, eventually earning her pilot's license. In 1982, Francis published an autobiography, ''Voices from Home: An Inner Journey''. On its cover, she wrote that the book "is my spiritual exposé. It is about our essence of being, the inner workings of mind and spirit which contribute to the growth of the invisible and most important part of us." A subsequent biography titled ''Anne Francis: The Life and Career'' was written by Laura Wagner and published by McFarland & Company in 2011. A smoker for much of her adult life, Francis said that she quit the habit in the mid-1980s, but was diagnosed with non-small-cell

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in 2006. Francis died from complications due to pancreatic cancer on January 2, 2011, at a retirement home in

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. Her ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean.

Partial TV/filmography

* 1947 '' This Time for Keeps'' as Bobby Soxer (uncredited) * 1948 '' Summer Holiday'' as Elsie Rand * 1948 '' The Pirate'' as Nina, Showgirl (uncredited) * 1948 ''

Portrait of Jennie ''Portrait of Jennie'' (also released under the title ''Tidal Wave'') is a 1948 American supernatural film directed by William Dieterle, produced by David O. Selznick, and starring Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, and Lillian ...

'' as Teenager in Art Gallery (uncredited) * 1950 '' So Young, So Bad'' as Loretta Wilson * 1951 '' The Whistle at Eaton Falls'' as Jean * 1951 ''

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'' as Jacqueline "Jake" Osborne * 1952 '' Lydia Bailey'' as Lydia Bailey * 1952 '' Dreamboat'' as Carol Sayre * 1953 '' A Lion Is in the Streets'' as "Flamingo" McManamee * 1954 '' The Rocket Man'' as June Brown * 1954 '' Susan Slept Here'' as Isabella Alexander * 1954 '' Rogue Cop'' as Nancy Corlane * 1955 '' Bad Day at Black Rock'' as Liz Wirth * 1955 ''

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'' as Rae * 1955 ''

'' as Anne Dadier * 1955 '' The Scarlet Coat'' as Sally Cameron * 1956 ''

'' as Altaira Morbius * 1956 '' The Rack'' as Aggie Hall * 1956 '' The Great American Pastime'' as Betty Hallerton * 1957 '' The Hired Gun'' as Ellen Beldon * 1957 '' Don't Go Near the Water'' as Lieutenant Alice Tomlen * 1959 ''Rawhide'' as Rose Whitman (TV show) * 1959 ''The Ten Commandments'' (TV movie) * 1960 '' The Untouchables'' (TV series) as Doreen Maney * 1960 '' The Crowded Sky'' as Kitty Foster * 1960 '' Girl of the Night'' as Robin "Bobbie" Williams * 1960 ''

'' (TV series) (Season 5 Episode 38: "Hooked") as Nyla Foster * 1961 ''

'' (TV series) (Season 7 Episode 5: "Keep Me Company") as Julia Reddy * 1961 '' Route 66'' (TV series) as Arline Simms (season two, episode one) * 1960-1963 ''

'' (TV series) as Jess-Belle Stone / Marsha White * 1963 ''

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'' (TV series) (Season 1 Episode 16: "What Really Happened") as Eve Raydon * 1963 ''

'' (TV series) (Season 2 Episode 5: "Blood Bargain") as Connie Breech * 1963-1965'' Burke's Law'' as Suzanne Foster (season one, episode five "Who Killed Wade Walker?") / as Honey West (season two, episode 30 "Who Killed the Jackpot?") * 1964 ''

Death Valley Days ''Death Valley Days'' is an American Western (genre), Western anthology series featuring true accounts of the American Old West, particularly the Death Valley country of southeastern California. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was ...

'' (TV series) as Pearl Hart (episode from March 17, 1964, titled "The Last Stagecoach Robbery") * 1964 '' The Virginian'' (TV series) as Victoria Greenly * 1964 '' The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'' as Gervaise Ravel (season one, episode three "The Quadripartite Affair" and season one, episode seven "The Giuoco Piano Affair") * 1965 ''

'' (TV series) (Season 3 Episode 18: "The Trap") as Peg Beale * 1965 '' The Satan Bug'' as Ann Williams * 1965 '' Honey West'' (TV series) as Honey West * 1965 '' Brainstorm'' as Lorrie Benson * 1967 '' The Invaders'' (TV series) as Annie Rhodes (season two, episode two "The Saucer") * 1968 '' Funny Girl'' as Georgia James * 1969 '' More Dead Than Alive'' as Monica Alton * 1969 '' Hook, Line & Sinker'' as Nancy Ingersoll * 1969 ''

'' as Bobby Jones * 1969 '' The Love God?'' as Lisa LaMonica * 1970 '' Lost Flight'' (TV movie) as Gina Talbott * 1970 ''Wild Women'' (TV movie) as Jean Marshek * 1970 '' Dan August'' as Gina Talbott (season one, episode one "Murder by Proxy") * 1970 '' The Intruders'' (TV movie) as Leora Garrison * 1971 ''The Forgotten Man'' (TV movie) as Marie Hardy Forrest * 1971 '' Steel Wreath'' (TV movie) as Angel * 1971 ''

'' (Columbo, season one, episode "Short Fuse") * 1972 '' Fireball Forward'' (TV movie) as Helen Sawyer * 1972 '' Haunts of the Very Rich'' (TV movie) as Annette Larrier * 1972 ''

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'' as Flo * 1972 ''

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'' (TV Series, season-18 episode "Sarah") as Sarah * 1973 ''

'' as Nurse Sharon Martin (season two, episode "A Stitch in Crime") * 1973 ''

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'' as Peggy Angel (season three, episode "Murder by Proxy") * 1973 ''

'' as Miriam Woodridge (season one, episode "Murder in a Dolls House") * 1974 ''

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'' (TV movie) as Julie * 1974 ''The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One'' (TV movie) as Colette * 1975 ''The Last Survivors'' (TV movie) as Helen Dixon * 1975 '' A Girl Named Sooner'' (TV movie) as Selma Goss * 1975 ''

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'' as Nurse Chandler (season one, episode "The Adventure of the Lover's Leap") * 1976 '' Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free'' (TV movie) as Flora Dobbs * 1976 '' Survive!'' as Anne * 1976 ''

'' as Lola Flynn (season one, episode "Beauty On Parade") * 1978 '' Little Mo'' (TV movie) as Sophie Fisher * 1978 ''

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'' as Patty Colson * 1979 '' The Rebels'' (TV movie) as Mrs. Harris * 1979 '' Beggarman, Thief'' (TV movie) as Teresa Kraler * 1980 ''Detour to Terror'' (TV movie) as Sheila * 1980 '' Dan August: The Jealousy Factor'' (TV movie) as Nina Porter * 1981 ''

'' 4 episodes as Arliss Cooper * 1981 CHIPs season 5 episode 18 (In the Best of Families) as Susan Wright * 1982 '' Mazes and Monsters'' (TV movie) as Ellie * 1983 ''O'Malley'' (TV movie) as Amanda O'Malley * 1983 ''Charley's Aunt'' (TV movie) as Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez * 1984 '' Riptide'' 6 episodes as Mama Jo * 1985 ''

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'' as Eileen Sedgeley * 1986 '' A Masterpiece of Murder'' (TV movie) as Ruth Beekman * 1987 '' Laguna Heat'' (TV movie) as Helene Long * 1987 '' Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story'' (TV movie) as Marjorie Post Hutton * 1988 '' My First Love'' (TV movie) as Terry * 1989 ''

'' as Trudy McMahon (1989, season four, episode 19 "Til Death Do We Volley") * 1990 ''Little Vegas'' as Martha * 1992 ''Love Can Be Murder'' (TV movie) as Maggie O'Brien * 1992 ''

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'' as Maggie O'Brien * 1994 '' Burke's Law'' as Honey Best (season one, episode three "Who Killed Nick Hazard?") * 1995 ''Lover's Knot'' as Marian Hunter * 1996 '' Wings'' S7E22 "The Lady Vanishes" as Vera * 1996 ''Have You Seen My Son'' (TV movie) as Catherine Pritcher * 1997 '' Conan the Adventurer'' as Gagool (season one, episode nine "The Curse of Afka") * 1998 ''

'' as Charlene Fifer (season 3, episode 18 "Nikki's Parents") * 1999 '' Fantasy Island'' as Cassie (season one, episode 13 "Heroes") * 2004 ''

'' as Rose Atwood (season two, episode 20 "Shadows")

References

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