Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet / We don't know who first had the idea of marriage, but eventually it evolved into "Queen or nothing" for Anne. Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net, Other Works She found a most appreciative audience in two classic The A former model and cover girl she took flying lessons but had to give them up before getting her licence because she was pregnant. Anne was the opposite of the pale, blonde-haired, blue-eyed image of beauty. HOAX. She waited until she could see the picture on TV one more time, said On May 2, the Queen herself was arrested at Greenwich and was informed of the charges against her: adultery, incest and plotting to murder the King. On Monday the 15th, the Queen and her brother were put on trial at the Great Hall of the Tower of London. http Those large dark eyes were often singled out in descriptions of Anne. WebAnne Francis got into show business quite early in life. Sometime near St. Paul's Day (January 25) 1533, Anne and Henry were secretly married. Anne's sister Mary was already in 'the French Queen's' attendance. She found a most appreciative audience in two classic The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes and then as a self-sufficient, Emma Peel-like detective in Aaron Spelling's short-lived cult series Honey West (1965), where she combined glamour and a sexy veneer with judo throws, karate chops and trendy fashions. "I was born with it. google_ad_type = "text_image"; No wonder contributors get angry when the sniveling, cowardly Wikipedia staff tries to keep them from stating the obvious. Other historians put Anne's birth as late as 1507 or 1509. Most young blondes in those days [1950s] were not taken too seriously. TCM Sucks Without Robert Osborne and Heres Why. WebFrancis died Sunday, Jan. 2, of pancreatic cancer at a rest home in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 80. / CBS News, CBS) Cancer has claimed the life of Anne Francis, sexy star of more than 30 movies, including the 1956 sci fi classic "Forbidden Planet.". We could have hammed it up, but we wanted to be as sincere as we could.. 0. It was a strong performance among many, though the film is best remembered for being the first with a rock'n'roll soundtrack, by Bill Haley and the Comets. Publicity Listings (See NewsFeed's tribute to Anne Francis. In the movie, Dreamboat, she doesnt have a mole. But symptoms typically don't show up until the disease has reached an advanced state. Here he is. At 10 or 11 she was on Broadway with Gertrude Lawrence in Lady in the Dark and spent her teens in countless radio soaps, including Portia Faces Life and When a Girl Marries, where her child's voice matured into its permanent, woman timbre. Well, then, let's have citations for "the sky is blue", "grass is green", and "water is wet". The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, her daughter Jane Uemura told The Los Angeles Times. google_color_bg = "FFFEEE"; She was 80. Born in Ossining, New York, she came to public notice in her childhood. Life in England and the Attentions of the King. All rights reserved. ), a seemingly natural blond, with large, lasering blue eyes and an expressive alto voice. Francis, who was married and divorced twice, is survived by two daughters, Maggie and Jane. Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. She was even more impressive as Paul Newman's war-widow sister-in-law in The Rack (1956), and in The Hired Gun (1957), she is sentenced to hang unusually, for a woman in a western for the murder of her husband. The only woman in the cast of Forbidden Planet, Francis had a sprightly charm and a wide-eyed child-like innocence as Altaira, the space-age Miranda in the transposition of Shakespeare's The Tempest to a distant planet. She removed her headdress (which was an English gable hood and not her usual French hood, according to contemporary reports) and her ladies tied a blindfold over her eyes. The mini-skirted teenaged daughter of the exiled Dr Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) has never seen any man except her father until a group of US astronauts, led by Commander John J Adams (Leslie Nielsen), arrive. LOS ANGELES (AP) Anne Francis, who was best known for her roles in the 1950s science-fiction film Forbidden Planet and the 1960s television series Honey West, died on Sunday in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 80. She has long been involved with a metaphysical-based church, channeling her own thoughts and feelings into the inspirational 1982 book "Voices from Home: An Inner Journey". Anne returned to England around 1521 for details for her marriage were being worked out. Later, she has spent more time off-camera and involved in such charitable programs as "Direct Relief", "Angel View" and the "Desert AIDS Project", among others. A lot of people speak to me about Honey West, Ms. Francis once recalled. They were upset to learn that at the Christmas celebrations of 1529, Anne was given precedence over the Duchesses of Norfolk and Suffolk, the latter of which was the King's own sister, Mary. he responds. A natural little beauty, she became a John Robert Powers model at age 6(!) Qemist (talk) 08:46, 8 March 2012 (UTC)Reply[reply]. She clearly used them, and the fascination they aroused, to her advantage whenever possible. WebShe was born on September 16, 1930 in Ossining, New York (which is near Sing Sing prison), the only child of Phillip Ward Francis, a businessman/salesman, and the former Edith Albertson.