Her great grandfather Tench Francis was aide to George Washington. The role won her a Golden Globe and she was also nominated for an Emmy. Anne knew that her time would soon come and started to become hysterical, her behavior swinging from great levity to body- wracking sobs. A natural little WebSee it for yourself when the 75-year-old actress is honored at "An Evening With Legendary Actress Anne Francis" on Friday at the Castro Theatre. A lot of people speak to me about Honey West, Ms. Francis once recalled. We could have hammed it up, but we wanted to be as sincere as we could.. She couldnt deal with the death of her costar Leslie Nielson., Even though Anne is dead, comtinued Robbie, her mole did not die and will continue to live as normally as possible. In addition to Ms. Uemura, she is survived by another daughter, Maggie, and a grandson. Warned by her father to avoid contact with the earthmen, she beams up Robby the Robot (Ariel). Fraser asserts that this is not the case since the romance between Anne and Percy ended in 1522 and the King didn't notice Anne until 1526. Probably at the Palace of Whitehall, Executed: 19 May 1536 She was 80. It encouraged a lot of people.. WebQUOTE (Dan Hollis @ Jun 24 2005, 09:08 PM) Who has the sexier mole: Anne Francis or Cindy Crawford? The blond was Anne Francis, the machine was Robby the Robot, and the poster had nothing to do with the movie: Robby was a gentleman scholar among automatons, a protector of Franciss character Altaira, not a menace to her. Maybe drawing on the example of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen to Edward IV (and maternal grandmother to Henry VIII) who was said to have told King Edward that she would only be his wife, not his mistress, Anne denied Henry VIII sexual favors. http Honey West lasted only one season, 1965-66, on ABC. ), Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Insurrection. said mole was even written into the script of one of her films. I was born with it. "I was going through analysis at the same time and I was playing going through analysis on that film. 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 daughter of Philip Marvak, a businessman, and his wife Edith, Anne was a photographer's model by her fifth birthday. Names were being chosen, with Edward and Henry the top choices. But that image may be the one that sprang to the minds of moviegoers this week, when the actresss death was announced. The blond was Anne Francis, the machine was Robby the Robot, and the poster had nothing to do with the movie: Robby was a gentleman scholar among automatons, a protector of Francis's character Altaira, not a menace to her. A former model and cover girl she took flying lessons but had to give them up before getting her licence because she was pregnant. . At MGM, she found promising leading lady work in a few noteworthy 1950s classics: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955); Blackboard Jungle (1955); and the science fiction cult classic Forbidden Planet (1956). 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 childs voice matured into its permanent, woman timbre. In addition to her film work, Francis played a mannequin who comes to life in an episode of the TV series "The Twilight Zone" and had the title role in the 1960s series "Honey West," in which she played a private detective with a pet ocelot. The sword itself had been hidden under the straw. But, in 1527 we see that Henry began to seek an annulment of his marriage to Catherine, making him free to marry again. It was not until 1950 that she was given her first chance to act on screen, in the United Artists production So Young, So Bad. Anne Francis played Honey West, a sexy private detective. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. A longtime rodeo fan, she wrote and directed the short subject film Gemini Rising (1968). At first, the court probably thought that Anne would just end up as another one of Henry's mistresses. The CBS-owned station used television cameras from the Farnsworth Corporation because RCA, the only other U.S. manufacturer of television equipment, was affiliated with NBC. The other four men condemned with the Queen had their sentences commuted from the grisly fate at Tyburn to a simple beheading at the Tower with Lord Rochford. 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. Please enter valid email address to continue. Mike Smith From Renewal By Andersen TV Commercials Voted HOTTEST GUY IN CANADA ! 2012. After her marriage to the heir of Ormonde fell through, she began an affair with Henry Percy, also a rich heir. Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007, the actress died on January 2, 2011, from complications of pancreatic cancer in a Santa Barbara (California) retirement home. Annes mole was almost as fmous as she was, and now it has to live life alone. In her admirers' memories, she conjures up a description that her co-star William Lundigan enunciated in their 1951 comedy Elopement: "Tall, blond, willowy, sort of ripples when she walks She's got those Minnie Mouse eyes, turns 'em on you like a pair of headlights. And now I look at all the women today who are doing it, and no one's batting an eyelash. [Read the Constable's recollection of this morning]. I think networks feel that women are mindless creatures, and they have no place on this kind of show. Interestingly, shortly before her execution on charges of adultery, the Queen's marriage to the King was dissolved and declared invalid. Anne was no doubt frustrated by the lack of progress. However, one would have to wonder if a woman with these oddities (not to mention the numerous other moles and warts she was said to have) would be so captivating to the king. "Citation needed"? Good grief. The cause was complications of pancreatic cancer, her daughter Jane Uemura told The Los Angeles Times. Antonia Fraser puts Anne's birth at 1500 or 1501, probably at Blickling (Norfolk) and the date of birth seems to be at the end of May or early June. Stephanie Abrams Weather Channel SUCKS! At the late night, double feature, picture show. Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007 despite having quit smoking nearly twenty years earlier. All rights reserved. Billed as Anne Bracken, she played alongside Gertrude Lawrence and Danny Kaye in the Kurt Weill musical Lady in the Dark (1941). In 1535, she became pregnant again but miscarried by the end of January. She immediately underwent chemotherapy and, in February 2008, underwent surgery to remove the upper lobe of her right lung.