Francine York

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Francine York , maiden name Francine Yerich , (born August 26, 1936 , according to official information: 1938, in Aurora , Minnesota ; † January 6, 2017 in Van Nuys , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Origin and beginnings

Francine York was born the elder of two daughters to Frank and Sophie Yerich. In 1941 her family moved to Cleveland , Ohio . At the age of nine she acted as Griselda in a Cinderella school performance at Hodge Grammar School; from then on she wanted to be an actress. After the family returned to Aurora, she attended Aurora High School, where she studied journalism and drama .

At the age of 17, she finished second in the Miss Minnesota beauty contest. She moved to Minneapolis and got a job as a model for the New York textile company Jane Richards Sportswear . She then modeled for various department stores in the United States and went to Northern California. After moving to San Francisco , she attended modeling courses at the House of Charm Agency , through which she received numerous modeling appearances. a. at Macy’s . She continued to take part in beauty pageants and finished second in the Miss San Francisco election.

York was working as a showgirl and dancer at the Moulin Rouge nightclub on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood when she embarked on a professional career as an actress. She took acting classes from Jeff Corey and Jack Kosslyn. She received a theatrical engagement for the play Whisper In God's Ear at the Circle Theater and was eventually discovered by a film producer through whom she got her first film role in Secret File: Hollywood (1962).

Movie

As a film actress, York made her breakthrough with her role in the comedy Money Doesn't Matter (1962), in which she played a bombshell that caught the attention of electrician Lester March ( Jerry Lewis ). Lewis then engaged her for five more of his films: The crazy professor (1963), The Heulboje (1964), The booby on duty (1964), The family jewel (1965) and later in Immer auf die Kleinen (1983), where she the elegant marquise Marie du Bois played.

Her other films include the film comedy Two Successful Seducers (1964, with Marlon Brando and David Niven ), the musical comedy Cowboy Melody (1965, with Elvis Presley ), the Western Cannons for Cordoba (1970; with George Peppard ), in which she one Had a nude scene and performed a belly dance ; and some science fiction films that are now iconic, such as Space Probe Taurus (1965), in which she played the world's first female astronaut . In her most famous film in the United States, the action film The Doll Squad (1973), she played Sabrina Kincaid, the leader of an elite female unit that tries to stop a madman from infecting the earth with a deadly virus. The film is considered a precursor to Charlie's Angels (2000).

She played Marilyn Monroe in the biography Marilyn: Alive and Behind Bars (1992). In the comedy film Family Man - A Heavenly Decision (2000) she was Lorraine, the mother-in-law of the male protagonist Jack Campbell, played by Nicolas Cage .

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York starred in over 100 television roles. Her television career lasted from 1959 to 2015. She had guest appearances in almost all US series and series specials.

In 1961, York played a human princess in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid for the NBC children's series Shirley Temple's Storybook, alongside her former childhood idol Shirley Temple .

Her best-known series roles include: the English actress Lillie Langtry (alongside Peter Whitney as judge Roy Bean ) in the episode A Picture of a Lady in the US series Im wilden Westen (1965), the co-defendant Bobbi Dane in The Case of the Sausalito Sunrise in Perry Mason (1965), especially Lilly Limpet, the gangster bride and henchman of the villain Bookworm ( Roddy McDowall ) in Batman (1966), who uses a boring book to get Robin to sleep and then drive the Batmobile , the attractive Venus de Milo in Love with a Witch (1971), as well as Sharon, the participant in a baking competition in men's business (1971) and the ex-prostitute and blackmailer Lorraine Farr Temple in Time of Longing (1978). In later years she appeared in Hot in Cleveland (2012, as British matriarch Lady Natalie) and Bucket & Skinner (2012, as Aunt Bitsy).

She also made guest appearances in Slattery's People (1965; as secretary to Richard Crenna ), The Boss (1968; 1969), Deployment in Manhattan (1974), The Streets of San Francisco (in three episodes between 1974 and 1977), Columbo (1975 ), Petrocelli (1975; 1976), Trio with Four Fists (1985), Matlock (1991) and Las Vegas (2005).

Private

York was considered a fitness and nutrition expert. She worked as a gourmet cook; she showed her culinary skills in numerous television appearances. Many of their recipes and fitness programs have been published in US health magazines.

York was unmarried. Until his death in 2006, she dated director Vincent Sherman (The Man from Philadelphia) for over 10 years . She died at the age of 80 years at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, California, on a cancer .

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Francine York  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Mike Barnes: Francine York, Alluring Actress of the 1960s, Dies at 80 . Obituary in: The Hollywood Reporter , January 6, 2017, accessed January 7, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME York, Francine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yerich, Francine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurora , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2017
Place of death Van Nuys , California