Just saw on Yahoo that the actress Anne Francis has died. If you didn't know who she was, it's probably because you weren't born in the 50s'. Among other roles in movies (where she started as an ingenue and moved up to femme fatalles(sp?) ) and tv, she sort of "pioneered" the female police detective almost 10 years BEFORE the just as glamorous Angie Dickenson, by starring in her own series "Honey West". Just this week I saw a re-run of Magnum where Ms. West had a role, and even until recently, I believe, she still did occasional cameos on tv.
RIP Anne. We just showed "Forbidden Planet" at work Sunday night.
oldsaw
SuperDork
1/3/11 11:47 p.m.
Anne Francis driving a 289 Cobra made "Honey West" had-to-watch TV fare.
RIP, Ms. Francis.
A few years ago they ran the Honey West series non-stop on one of the cable channels. I caught quite a few epsiodes.
Publicity still from "Bad Day at Black Rock", 1955. Figured this one would fit here, since she's holding a wrench.
I attribute it to a good plastic surgeon, but unlike most stars of her age, Ms. Francis still looked pretty much the same in 1955 as she did in 2005.
"Bad Day at Black Rock" is one of those movies that I try to see when it comes on, but I somehow miss it.
integraguy wrote:
I attribute it to a good plastic surgeon, but unlike most stars of her age, Ms. Francis still looked pretty much the same in 1955 as she did in 2005.
"Bad Day at Black Rock" is one of those movies that I try to see when it comes on, but I somehow miss it.
Yeah, me too. I miss the days when all the local broadcast TV stations showed movies all night, instead of infomercials. When the folks I know at (EDIT: network name deleted, but it's an upper tier cable network based in Atlanta, GA..) start their whining about their aging demographics, I suggest that they simply reduce the fees for showing these films to the point where broadcast stations like WMUD, Posthole, GA can show them again. There's gotta be plenty of insomniac kids that would watch them.
They reply that they've thought about that, but the corporate folks have spent so much money trying to get 80yr olds to buy "Casablanca" & such on DVD (for $30 a pop) that nobody in that office wants to hear the "long term solution" to the network's problem. Grr.
IMO, stuff like this is why people are leaving cable TV for Netflix & the internet..
Yeah, late at night I'm currently stuck with the same old choices:
Friends, Seinfeld, Family Guy, unless I turn to ThisTV...and with the exception of a few of the Highway Patrol and Sea Hunt episodes, I've seen all their old movies. My brother has NetFlix and I'm probably going to go that way in the very near future.
What really kills me tho is that I don't have a DVR, so on the 1 or 2 nights of the week when there are 2 or more "competing" shows that I can't tape simultaneously with my old VCR I miss something I haven't seen before that has made it into syndication. I'm hooked on The Closer, but it competes with another show I like.
