Anne Francis

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Anne Lloyd Francis (real name Ann Marvak , born September 16, 1930 in Ossining , New York , † January 2, 2011 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American film actress .

Life

Francis came into contact with the world of show business at an early age. At the age of six she was a photo model and took part in radio soap operas . At the age of eleven, she was already on the stage at the side of Gertrude Lawrence in the well-known play Lady in the Dark on Broadway . After World War II , MGM signed them. She made her film debut in 1947 in Bewitching Lips (This Time for Keeps) .

In the following years she starred in several films, but could not make a breakthrough in Hollywood . She then went back to New York and subsequently played a number of roles in the early days of television and low-budget films, where she played the influential producer Darryl F. Zanuck as a young criminal in the film So Young and So Corrupted (So ​​Young So Bad) noticed. He gave her a contract with 20th Century Fox . In the following years she played herself in the first ranks of Hollywood starlets.

She reached a first career high point in 1955 at the side of Spencer Tracy in Stadt in Angst (Bad Day at Black Rock) . Also in 1955 she starred in the youth rebel drama The Seeds of Violence (Blackboard Jungle) on the side of Glenn Ford and Sidney Poitiers . She had her best-known role the following year in the science fiction classic Alarm im Weltall (Forbidden Planet) . However, she was denied a great Hollywood career in the following years.

Francis still played regularly in movies, but was mainly seen on television since the 1960s, for example in series such as Honey West (1965/66), where she played the leading role and received a Golden Globe Award in 1966 . After her role in Funny Girl in 1968 almost completely fell victim to the scissors and the following films Jerry, the heart patient ( Hook, Line & Sinker , 1969, with Jerry Lewis ) and unwilling sex man ( The Love God?, 1969, with Don Knotts ) were of inferior quality and complete flops, she withdrew almost completely from the film business with a few exceptions and limited herself to her television work in the following years. In the 1990s and 2000s, she became more and more a popular face in minor supporting roles in television series such as the Drew Carey Show .

Anne Francis received a special honor when she was featured by Richard O'Brien in the title track Science Fiction / Double Feature in his musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, alongside other genre stars of the fantastic film such as Michael Rennie , Claude Rains , Fay Wray , Leo G. Carroll and George Pal was mentioned.

Francis died of pancreatic cancer on January 2, 2011 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1954: Hot Patch (Rogue Cop)
  • 1954: One night with Susanne (Susan Slept Here)
  • 1955: Stadt in Angst (Bad Day at Black Rock)
  • 1955: The Seeds of Violence ( Blackboard Jungle )
  • 1956: Indictment: High Treason ( The Rack ) (Director: Arnold Laven )
  • 1956: Alert in Space ( Forbidden Planet )
  • 1960: SOS for flight T 17 ( The Crowded Sky )
  • 1965: Secret agent Barrett intervenes ( The Satan Bug )
  • 1965: The Devilish Game ( Brainstorm )
  • 1965-1966: Private detective Honey West ( Honey West ) (TV series)
  • 1968: Killer Cain ( More Dead Than Alive )
  • 1969: On the hunt for lost gold (Impasse)
  • 1969: Lost in the Pacific ( Lost Flight )
  • 1972: Columbo : Cigars for the boss ( Short Fuse )
  • 1972: Viva Pancho Villa (El desafío de Pancho Villa)
  • 1973: Columbo : Two Lives on a Thread ( A Stitch in Crime )
  • 1978: The Colson Affair (Born again)
  • 1981: Dallas (TV series)
  • 1982: Labyrinth of Monsters ( Mazes and Monsters )
  • 1984–1986: Trio with Four Fists ( Riptide ) (TV series)
  • 1985: Diana's Secret - Haunted by Ghosts (Return)
  • 1988: Golden Girls (TV series)
  • 1990: Little Vegas
  • 1996: Lover's Knot - A Love with Obstacles (Lover's Knot)
  • 2004: Without a Trace (Without a Trace) (TV series, episode 02x20)

Awards

Golden Globe Award

literature

  • Anne Francis: Voices from Home. An inner journey . Milbrae 1982.
  • Frank Blum: Homage to Anne Francis . In: Film Mäg , No. 8 (Sept. 2010), pp. 74-85. ISSN  2191-4400
  • Frank Blum: The Honey from the Golden West - Anne Francis as Honey West . In: Film Mäg , No. 9 (Nov. 2010), pp. 129–144. ISSN  2191-4400

Web links

Commons : Anne Francis  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  2. ↑ http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-anne-francis-20110103,0,2031697.story
personal data
SURNAME Francis, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Francis, Anne Lloyd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Ossining , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2011
Place of death Santa Barbara , California , United States