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Anne Francis
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Night after night, Julia Reddy (Anne Francis) is left home alone while her husband, Marco (Edmund Hashim), works overtime with his brothers. Out of boredom one evening, Julia calls the police and makes up a story about seeing a prowler in the neighborhood -- and when a detective (Jack Ging) shows up, Julia puts the moves on the poor fellow. Under normal circumstances, Julia would be asking for a lot of trouble; instead, she unwittingly performs a great public service. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A brazen, curvaceous bombshell of the otherwise square Atomic Age, Anne Francis is the archetypal mid-20th century fox. Blonde and curvy, with a sweet little mole atop her lip, Anne made for a perfect ingénue in Hollywood potboilers such as Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) and Blackboard Jungle (1955). See full bio, pics and clips at
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A[N]ne Francis started her career as a child model in New York City at the tender age of five. She progressed to children's radio on NBC and CBS, and then moved to Broadway in Lady in The Dark. Anne did her share of radio soap operas, until she signed a year contract with MGM where she did two day's work on a film called Summer Holiday. Once her contract expired, she moved back to New York, where she settled into the exciting and creative post War era of live television performing on many shows such as Playhouse 90, U. S. Steel Hour and Kraft Theater. She ... hosted a weekly Variety show at NBC called, The Bonnie Maid Versatile Variety Show! While playing a teenage prostitute with a baby in So Young, So Bad, she came under the attention of Twentieth Century Fox.
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Anne Francis started her career as a child model in New York City at the tender age of five. She progressed to children's radio (NBC) for "Coast to Coast on a Bus" and then "Let's Pretend" at CBS with Nila Mac. Her first play was on Broadway in "Lady in The Dark" with Gertrude Lawrence. She grew up in the primary stages of television performing on a daily children’s program at CBS and participating in that station's first color tests before World War II shut down all TV programming. Anne did her share of radio soap operas, appearing on "Aunt Jenny", "Portia Faces Life", "Rosemary", and she played Kathy Cameron on the soap "When a Girl Marries", until called for a year's stint under contract to MGM where she did two day's work on a film called "Summer Holiday" with Mickey Rooney and a truly stellar cast. However, you have to look fast to find her! She played Mickey Rooney's older brother's girlfriend.
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Anne Francis was born in Ossining, New York in 1930. Her career began at the age of five when she started as a child model. Before long she was doing radio work on such children's shows as "Lets Pretend" and "Coast to Coast on a Bus". She then appeared on Broadway in the play "Lady in the Dark" with Gertrude Lawrence. Her radio work continued on such radio soap operas as "Portia Faces Life",...
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From the late 1960s onward, Anne Francis has concentrated most of her efforts on television, with great success. She has appeared in hundreds of hours of TV programming throughout her career, acting in numerous TV series and making a number of TV movies. And she still looks terrific today. Visit the Official Anne Francis site, listed in the Links section below.
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