What happened to Arlene Francis eye? Francis died at the age of 93 on May 31, 2001 in San Francisco, California from Alzheimer's disease and cancer. She was interred in Roosevelt Memorial Park in Trevose, Pennsylvania.
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What happened to Arlene Francis in 1960?
She was still doing radio while on TV, and in 1960, she was the star of "The Arlene Francis Show," a daily interview show in New York, on WOR; it ran for 23 years. Arlene retired from show business after that and lived comfortably. She was still giving interviews in 1991.
How long did Arlene Francis have Alzheimer's?
Suffered from Alzheimer's disease from mid-1980s until her death in 2001. In 1960, her maid accidentally dropped a barbell from her apartment window or balcony, killing a passerby. Ms. Francis paid $175,000 in damages.
Why did Arlene Francis wear an eyepatch?
Arlene wore an eye patch again this week. She had scratched her left eye the previous week right before airtime.
Was Arlene Francis necklace ever found?
Arlene's heart necklace was given to her by her husband, Martin Gabel, on their first wedding anniversary. She wore it on every show she appeared on and throughout her life, until 1988 when a thief snatched it from her neck. It hasn't been found.
Was What's My Line rigged?
The answer is that What's My Line? wasn't rigged in the sense that Dotto or 21 or a few others were manipulated, with contestants being fed the answers to control dramatic tension. Actually, on the fixed game shows, a more common practice was to rig by asking contestants questions the producers knew they could answer.
Is Arlene Francis alive?
May 31, 2001Arlene Francis / Date of death
Did Arlene Francis have Alzheimer's?
Arlene Francis, 93, the witty actress and television personality who was a panelist on the popular "What's My Line?" show for its 25-year run, died May 31 at Kaiser Hospital here. She had Alzheimer's disease.
How old is Arlene Francis?
93 years (1907–2001)Arlene Francis / Age at death
How did Arlene Francis meet Martin Gabel?
She was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre company when she met her second husband, actor Martin Gabel.
Where is Arlene Francis buried?
Roosevelt Cemetery, PAArlene Francis / Place of burial
Where did Betty White get the heart necklace?
So where did Betty White get her diamond heart necklace from? Many think it was a gift from her late husband Allen Ludden but it turns out to be from actress Jennifer Love Hewitt!
WHY DID WHAT'S MY LINE end?
The final CBS network show Bennett Cerf wrote that the network had decided that game shows were no longer suitable for prime time, and that the news was broken by The New York Times on February 14 before anyone involved with the show was notified.
Who is Arlene Francis?
Ms. Francis was born Arlene Francis Kazanjian on Oct. 20, 1907, in Boston, the daughter of an Armenian immigrant. After a first marriage ended in divorce, she married Mr. Gabel, who died in 1986. She is survived by their son, Peter.
What radio show did Arlene Francis host?
Ms. Francis also had a top-rated daily radio interview program, ''The Arlene Francis Show, '' on WOR in New York from 1960 to 1984. She spoke to guests from all walks of life, opening the run with Rock Hudson.
Who died on What's My Line?
Arlene Francis, the actress and jaunty, good-natured television personality who was a fixture on ''What's My Line?'' for 25 years, died on Thursday at a hospital in San Francisco. She was 93.
Overview
Arlene Francis (born Arline Francis Kazanjian; October 20, 1907 – May 31, 2001) was an American actress, radio and television talk show host, and game show panelist. She is known for her long-running role as a panelist on the television game show What's My Line?, on which she regularly appeared for 25 years, from 1950 to 1975, on both the network and syndicated versions of the show.
Early life
Francis was born on October 20, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Leah (née Davis) and Aram Kazanjian. Her Armenian father was studying art in Paris at the age of 16 when he learned that both his parents had died in one of the massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman government in Turkey between 1894 and 1896, known as the Hamidian Massacres. He emigrated to the United States and became a portrait photographer, opening his own studio in Boston in th…
Career
After attending Finch College, Francis began a varied career as an entertainer based in New York City. She became an accomplished stage actress, performing in many local theatre and off-Broadway plays and in 25 Broadway plays through 1975. In 1932, she made her film debut in Universal's Murders in the Rue Morgue. She appeared in films sporadically until the 1970s.
Personal life
Francis was married twice. Her first marriage, from 1935 to 1945, was to Neil Agnew, an executive with Paramount Pictures; they divorced in 1945.
She wrote of this experience in her 1978 autobiography:
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 are…
Death
Francis died at the age of 93 on May 31, 2001, in San Francisco, California, from Alzheimer's disease and cancer. She was interred in Roosevelt Memorial Park in Trevose, Pennsylvania.
Bibliography
• Francis, Arlene (1978). Arlene Francis: A Memoir. with Florence Rome. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671228088.
External links
• Arlene Francis is hostess of Blind Date (a 1950s TV game show) in this video from YouTube
• Arlene Francis Show with guest Sparky Lyle, WOR radio, October 26, 1977
• Arlene Francis at IMDb
• Arlene Francis at the TCM Movie Database