Why Didn't Anne Francis Have A Bigger Career?

Or Arlene Francis for that matter.

Between Lee Remick, Joanne Woodward and Louise Fletcher did Hollywood need an Anne Francis?

Anne Francis had an odd nose and didn't give up the snatch. Doomed.

Why didn't Lola Albright or Diane McBain, OP?

As with the woman mentioned, you need that one role to catapult you beyond your competitors. Lee Remick got the gold ring with a sexy role in "Face In The Crowd," and Kazan's dick up her pussy. Just like Natalie did with Nick Ray's cock-a-doodle.

Lee had a more ethereal quality about her. Anne was more small screen quality.

Didn't she star in Forbidden Planet?

I’m not sure Lee ever fucked Kazan, but she sure was his type. His long term mistress and eventual wife Barbara Loden was a sexier (and honestly, more charismatic) Lee Remick.

R 8....You can not be an unknown actress, looking for a break, without fucking your way into a role, and Kazan, known to fuck all his leading ladies with the exception of perhaps Jessica Tandy and Talulah Bankhead, fucked everyone, Lee included. Don't be naive.

She was too busy playing practical jokes on her friends.

Girl could not suck a dick to save her life...trust me!

Anne Francis had a decent career in her own way. She seemed to get plenty of work in her time. I always liked her.

She was good in Bad Day at Black Rock, despite that film's one Glaring, Illogical, Mistake.

^But did she sweat in that movie?

I loved me some Honey West in the mid 60s....

I’ve never heard that Kazan fucked all his leading ladies. He fucked Patricia Neal? Barbara Bel Geddes? Carroll Baker? Eva Marie Saint? You seem to be pulling this out of your ass - he hired a lot of Actors Studio people over Hollywood types, but that didn’t mean he was fucking them. He famously refused to cast Marilyn Monroe in anything even though they had a long on/off affair.

It was pretty big till she got raped. But I love her song "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own."

The "beauty mark."

Joanne Woodward and Lee Remick for two, we’re much more talented. That’s why.

In the very first “Hollywood” issue “Vanity Fair”, there was a wonderful photo of a lot of Old-Hollywood studio contract players. Anne Francis was included, and she looked terrific.

Can you spot her in The Pirate (1948)?

R16...Are you taking the piss? Caroll Baker???? Of course, she fucked him. For BabyDoll??With her thumb in in her mouth and her sensuous body spread across Broadway??? Fuck yes. Eva MarieSaint for On The Waterfront? Grow up. Barbara for Cat? Get real. Ditto Patricia Neal. These were young chicks in their late 20s to early 30s with a burning desire to be a star, and a sizzling pussy to reach that goal. If you got Kazan directing, Have Cunt Will Travel.

Mediocre talent, modest beauty at best that might have thrived had the studio system still been in place, but even then Anne Francis would have been consigned to The Other Woman and The Best Friend.

She really wasn't an ingenue that could have/would have/should have graduated to leading lady roles. Kind of a second rate Terry Moore....and that's saying something.

Voices from Home: An Inner Journey (1st ed.). Celestial Arts. p. dust jacket. ISBN 978-0890873403. "Because I am an actress, I am sure the first response to my having written a book will be, "Aha, another Hollywood biography." Since the market is flooded with biographies of professional revelations from many luminaries and super stars, the next response might quite possibly be, 'Who cares?'. I care! I care because VOICES FROM HOME is not a book about hidden skeletons, social calendars, and name revealing dalliances. It is far more intimate. It is my spiritual expose. It is about our essence of being, the unexplicable reality of mysticism, psychic phenomena, and the inner workings of mind and spirit which contribute to the growth of the invisible and most important part of us; hidden from the glare of lights and the camera's eye." 2

Oh, and R16. Of course, he fucked Marilyn. She fucked everyone. If she fucked Olivier, she fucked Elia. And it's pronounced E-Lie-Ah, not Eel -EE-Ah

A side trip to Bergen Belsen during the '45 tour was a bad career move.

Were E-Lie-Ah and Lay-Nee related, r25?

EEL -ee yah or EE-Li-yah? Those would be the two choices.

Anne Francis has something on her resume that's a nice thing to have...a classic Twilight Zone episode.

How long will it take to bring up Barbra?

She was big, the pictures were just small. She was on lots of shows, had Honey West and, of course, the classic Forbidden Planet. She was still busy when older and a bit plump. She did well, everyone can’t be Tippi Hedren.

Loved her in Honey West

She worked pretty consistently for most of her 60 year career and sounds like she had a nice stable life. She did alright.

She hit me in the head with a fondue pot.

Shes immortal...she was Trudy on the Golden Girls. Dorothys old college chum who faked her death playing tennis.

OP should've used R15's pic.

Anne was good on the Dallas TV series. She played the mother of *hot* Mitch Cooper and Afton Cooper!

People confused her with Anne Baxter and Anne Bancroft.

I've read her diary.

Kazan had her but he wasn’t impressed.

Anne Francis had the original Megyn Kelly nose. You couldn't take your eyes off it - unfortunately.

For reasons well know to her.

People confused her with Connie Francis.

She didn't do enough legitimate theatre!

[quote]People confused her with Connie Francis.

Anne Francis was never a washed up mental case.

I always confused her with Anne Attridge, the younger sister of a schoolmate in my teen years. Anne and I made out at a party.

She was no wavishing Kay Fwancis.