!What a Woman! - I'm more in love with her now, than ever. That smile, that bod, that hair, that voice, those eyes. And her mind is so together. Her eloquent ideas formulate immediately. I could listen to her forever. Am I gushing? ok...
She had stopped smoking but in the mid 2000's she was diagnosed with lung cancer, she beat it but it took everything out of her. Shortly thereafter it was discovered she had pancreatic cancer but her body was shot. She just couldn't fight it and less then a year later she was gone.
Smoking cigarettes greatly increases rates of pancreatic cancer. Although she live to 80, which is awesome, she likely would have died of something other than pancreatic cancer and likely would not have suffered through lung cancer.
I use to have such a crush on Anne Francis as a kid. She was so sweet. I use to look forward to seeing Honey west. But Forbidden planet was in my opinion a really deep meaningful movie.I really enjoyed viewing this video thank you for shearing it with us. Anne was a remarkable actress. She will be missed.
I loved Honey West even tho I don't really remember the episodes. I loved her in Forbidden Planet and the Twilight Zone. She was my favorite female actress along with Maureen O'Hara.
1982? She was Always beautiful. I loved seeing her in everything from Forbidden Planet to the Twilight Zone (she broke my heart as the country girl in love in the episode where she went to a witch for a love potion). As Honey West, she was a role model for me and one of the first women to be featured as capable (along with Diana Rigg and Honor Blackman). Fantastic and she was still a handsome woman!!! Many thanks for this post!
They gave her bad lighting and makeup here...years later she looked quite good. I met her around age 72 or so and she looked fantastic. Anyone who lives to be 80 and used to be a smoker is quite lucky,. I know many people who never smoked and ate right etc and died a lot younger.
Despite the circumstance, Anne Francis shows herself for that which she is, ' A Lady'. She is a pleasure to watch and see here. Too many so called 'stars' of today would do well to see this, take mental notes, and apply them accordingly. Anne Francis has that rare quality, a unique inner beauty. Her professionalism , her integrity, set her apart, yet she clearly is not 'affected' by this.
This is a wonderful artist who started her career as a sex kitten and through working with great people like Cagney, Walsh, Tracy, John Sturges etc. came into her own as an outstanding actress and person. Coming from a woman who went through it all, her observations on life are invaluable to new actors and filmmakers. She was a real pleasure to interview, and I thank Ira for making yet another piece of history available to us all.
I have alway loved and admired Anne Francis. Not only for her great beauty but for her acting talent as well. Loved to see her kick ass in Honey West. She's still beautiful and I'll bet she's a lot of fun to be around.
She was so beautiful when she began making movies, especially in the twilight zone, the one about manicans...forgot what the title of that episode was called. She was grossly underated in my opinion.
@ccp690 Yes, this is a terrific interview with a fine & beautiful human being. Forbidden Planet was on TV Sunday night-01.03.11- & the next morning it shocked me when I I opened the paper and found that Ms. Anne Francis had passed to Greater Glory. She was a really natural person with fine insights and a sturdy core. May she rest in Eternal Peace.
@MrChirpsky Do you mean the Gold Thimble? I also Love that episode of TZ, I find it difficult to believe that Anne was 30 in that episode "The After Hours". She looks pretty good here for her age, I'm glad she quit smoking though, when she did. I think she quit in the late 80s. I'm also an ex-smoker. One thing that hasn't changed are her incredible blue eyes.
I have to agree althought she is not lightening her hair, but it is true some people just do not age well and do so rapidly. It can occur abruptly. In 1963 there is a tape/film of her flying an airplane and she still looks young fresh and youthful.
@paintedship Yes, 30 is indeed young, all I meant was that she appeared to be about 21in "The After Hours" episode of The Twilight Zone in 1960. R.I.P. Anne I was just reading about her passing.
lesselp Thank you tobacco lobby. Genetics is a large component of longevity. Had she never smoked she might have lived another 15 or 20 more healthy years. You can, nevertheless, hear the ravages of smoking in her voice and cough. As it was, she required chemotherapy and surgery for lung cancer and died of pancreatic cancer, another smoking related illness. Yes, she is indeed a poster child for the devastating consequences of smoking.
It's not so much the number of years you live but the quality of that life - and smoking can rob and destroy that quality in the final years. People can live a fruitful and enjoyable life so long as they have their health at whatever age.
It is a selfish remark. Because we miss her and she might have stayed around longer if she had not smoked. The French Lady that lived to be 122? She quit when she was 120.
Yes, Ann died at the tender age of 80!!!!!!!! She lived a long and wonderful life, and yes, the cigs defenatly caused her cancer but she smoked for, what, 60 + years? She was one of the few that smoke forever and avoided dying young. She is 52 in this interview? This is how cigeretts prematurely age you, don't smoke, quit, even if for vein reasons, just quit, you knuckleheads, you'll thank me later.
Unfortunately, she just died "from complications of cancer". Yet another example of our wonderful "diseasecare system"-getting one cancer from the treatments of another. Thanks again for smoking. I can't believe it!!! RIP Anne, such a wonderful, sexy person.
@JoeMC7 I didn't think 30 was all that old. Oddly though she looks better to me as she got older compared to this interview, maybe dropping the cigarettes had to do with it.
