| Arlene Francis | |
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| Born | Arlene Francis Kazanjian October 20, 1907 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | May 31, 2001 (aged 93) San Francisco, California |
Arlene Francis (born Arline Francis Kazanjian October 20, 1907 - May 31, 2001) was an American actress, radio talk show host, and game show panelist. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. A talk show ( American) or chat show ( Global) is a Television or Radio program where one person or group of people come together to She is known for her long-standing role as a panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, on which she regularly appeared for twenty-five years, from 1950 through the mid-1970s. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic What's My Line? is a weekly panel Game show which was produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS Always dressed and coiffed meticulously, Arlene invariably wore her trademark simple gold necklace with heart pendant.
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Heritage and early life
Arlene Francis was born on October 20, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts. Events 1740 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony Year 1907 ( MCMVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Her Armenian father was studying art in Paris at age 16 when he learned that both his parents were dead in one of the Hamidian massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia between 1894 and 1896. The Armenians (Հայեր Hayer) are a Nation and Ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands A large Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city The Hamidian massacres, also referred to as the Armenian Massacres of 1894-1896, refers to the massacring of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, with estimates of the The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black (Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire was unknown to many Americans for nearly a century. ) Aram Kazanjian then immigrated to the United States and became a portrait photographer, opening his own studio in Boston in the early 20th century. He was an early practitioner of body paint, often photographing young women after painting on them. Later in life, when his daughter was at the height of her fame, Mr. Kazanjian painted canvasses of dogwoods, "rabbits in flight" and other forces of nature, selling them at auction in New York. [1]
"I think I was about seven years old," Arlene, an only child, wrote in her 1978 autobiography, "when Father decided that New York offered greater opportunities for success, and we moved from Boston into that flat [in Washington Heights, Manhattan]. Washington Heights is a New York City neighborhood in the northern reaches of the borough of Manhattan. It was a good move professionally, and when he decided to specialize in children's photographs, he became very successful indeed, one of the best known in his field. " [2] Except for sojourns in the Los Angeles area, Arlene remained a New Yorker after she "was about seven years old" until her son moved her to a San Francisco nursing home in 1993. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city [3]
Career
After attending Finch College, Francis had a broad and varied career as an entertainer. Finch College was a Baccalaureate Women's college located in Manhattan, New York City, New York. She was an accomplished actress with 25 Broadway plays to her credit, from La Gringa in 1928 to Don't Call Back in 1975. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located She also performed in many local theatre and off-Broadway plays. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City.
Francis was a well known New York City radio personality, having hosted several radio programs, including a long-running midday chat show on WOR-AM. The City of New York WOR is a class A (nighttime Clear channel) AM radio station located in New York New York, U In the 1940s, she emceed a network radio game show, Blind Date, which she also hosted on television from 1949 to 1952. She was one of the regular contributors to NBC Radio's Monitor in the 1950s and 1960s. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's For NBC 's 1983 television news magazine series see Monitor (TV.
Francis was a regular panelist on the game show What's My Line? throughout almost its entire network run on CBS from 1950 to 1967, and she also appeared in the show's revival as a syndicated show the following year. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through She joined the original show on its second episode in 1950 and remained a panelist until the end of the syndicated version of the program in 1975. The original show, which featured guests whose occupation, or "line," the panelists were to guess, became one of the classic television game shows, noted for the urbanity of its host and panelists. Francis also appeared on many other game shows, including Match Game, Password and other programs produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Match Game also called The Match Game was an American Television Game show that celebrities and contestants answering Password is a word association game developed by the Milton Bradley Company in 1962 Mark Goodson ( January 14, 1915 &ndash December 18, 1992) was a successful American Television producer who specialized William (Wilbur S "Bill" Todman ( July 31, 1916 &ndash July 29, 1979) was an American
Francis was a pioneer for women on television, one of the first women to host a program that was not musical or dramatic. From 1954 to 1957 she was host and editor-in-chief of Home, NBC's ambitious hour-long daytime magazine program oriented toward women, which was conceived by network president Pat Weaver as a complement to the network's Today and Tonight programs. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr ( December 21, 1908 &ndash March 17, 2002) was a former radio advertising executive who was Today, also referred to as The Today Show, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as appropriate --> The Tonight Show is a long-running Newsweek magazine put her on its cover as "the first lady of television. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. " She also hosted Talent Patrol in the mid 1950s.
She acted in several films, debuting in the role of a prostitute in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932). (She got that role after traveling to Los Angeles with her mother, who had a friend who knew David Selznick very well. David O Selznick, born David Selznick ( May 10, 1902 &ndash June 22, 1965) was one of the iconic Hollywood producers Francis' only acting experience at that point was in a small Shakespearean production in the convent school from which she had recently graduated. Her La Gringa on Broadway might have preceded that first trip to Hollywood, but she omitted this theatrical "debut" from her autobiography entirely. [4])
In the 1960s, Arlene Francis appeared in One, Two, Three (1961), directed by Billy Wilder and filmed on location in Munich, The Thrill of It All (1963), and in the television version of the play Laura (1968), which she had played on stage several times. One Two Three ( 1961) is a comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by I Billy Wilder ( June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian born Jewish - American Journalist Munich (München; Minga is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. The Thrill of It All ( 1963) is a Romantic comedy film directed by Norman Jewison starring Doris Day, James Garner, Her final film performance was in the Billy Wilder film Fedora (1978). Fedora is a 1978 American Drama film directed by Billy Wilder.
Francis wrote an autobiography in 1978 entitled Arlene Francis: A Memoir with help from a longtime friend, Florence Rome. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" She also wrote That Certain Something: The Magic of Charm in 1960 and a book/cookbook, No Time for Cooking, in 1961.
She died on May 31, 2001 in San Francisco at the age of 93 after a long bout with Alzheimer's disease and cancer. Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Alzheimer's disease ( AD) also called Alzheimer disease or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of Dementia. Cancer (medical term Malignant Neoplasm) is a class of Diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled
Personal life
Francis was married twice, first to Neil Agnew from 1935 to 1945. He worked in the Sales Department of Paramount Pictures, which necessitated frequent business trips during which Francis stayed home alone. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. According to the Los Angeles Times obituary of Francis (6/02/01), that marriage ended in divorce. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed In her 1978 autobiography, she writes poignantly of this experience. "Having made the actual physical break, it was easier for me than I had thought to explain to Neil some of what I felt, what I had been feeling for so long a time. Not all, of course. There were areas which I couldn't discuss even then, which would be too hurtful to him, I felt. I saw him fairly often, and he courted me as though we had just met, but I was building up strengths which enabled me to resist not only his blandishments (including a lovely little house which he bought in New York as an enticement to get me to change my mind) but those of my parents, who also would have given anything to see me go back to the status which had been quo. " [5]
Francis' second marriage was to actor/producer Martin Gabel from 1946 until his death on May 22, 1986, of a heart attack. Martin Gabel ( June 19, 1912 &ndash May 22, 1986) was an American Actor, Film director and Film producer. Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) He was a frequent guest panelist on What's My Line?. The couple, who often exchanged endearments on the show, had a son, Peter Gabel, born January 28, 1947, who is currently a law professor at the New College of California in San Francisco. Peter Gabel, PhD (born January 28, 1947) is an American law academic and associate editor of Tikkun. Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. New College of California was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971 by former Gonzaga University President Father John Leary He was at his mother's side when she died.
Francis had a relationship with Jess Stearn, who was a chronicler of psychic phenomena and a Newsweek associate editor, for many years. Jess Stearn ( April 26, 1914 - March 27, 2002) born in Syracuse New York, was They shared an interest in yoga, which was unusual for Americans of their generation. Francis omitted his name entirely from her autobiography despite her putting in the index many friends whose names appear nowhere else in the book. Her connection with Stearn has been verified, however, by a longtime Malibu, California neighbor of his who has taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA. Malibu is an incorporated city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. [6]
References
- ^ Pages 11 to 13 in Arlene Francis: A Memoir by Arlene Francis with Florence Rome. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
- ^ Page 14 in Arlene Francis: A Memoir by Arlene Francis with Florence Rome. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
- ^ Liz Smith reported Arlene's cross-country move in Liz's New York Newsday column in 1993.
- ^ Pages 18 - 19 in Arlene Francis: A Memoir by Arlene Francis with Florence Rome. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
- ^ Page 59 of Arlene Francis: A Memoir by Arlene Francis with Florence Rome. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.
- ^ This bio of Suzanne Bauman lists several institutions, including UCLA, where she can be contacted and queried about her conversations with Jess Stearn.
External links
- Arlene Francis, Actress and TV Panelist, dies at 93
- A Tribute To Arlene Francis
- Arlene Francis at the Internet Movie Database
- Arlene Francis at Find A Grave
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