[Vision2020] Yet, Another Fantasy From My Youth Gone . . .

[Joe Campbell]

This was just on Turner Classic movies this past week -- though I missed it!

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Carl Westberg <idahovandal1 at live.com> wrote:
> The two big stars of "Forbidden Planet" (although maybe Robbie the robot was
> the true star), Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis gone within weeks of each
> other.  "Forbidden Planet" has to be one of my ten favorite movies.  Great
> twist on Shakespeare and the Id, solid acting and Anne Francis in a very
> short skirt.  Who could ask for more?
>
>> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 06:32:09 -0800
>> From: thansen at moscow.com
>> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>> Subject: [Vision2020] Yet, Another Fantasy From My Youth Gone . . .
>>
>> Courtesy of today's (January 4, 2011) Spokesman-Review.
>>
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>>
>> ‘Forbidden Planet’ actress Anne Francis, 80, dies
>> Role in ‘Honey West’ earned Emmy nomination
>>
>> LOS ANGELES – Actress Anne Francis, who was the love interest in the 1950s
>> science-fiction classic “Forbidden Planet” and later was a sexy private
>> eye in “Honey West” on TV, has died at age 80.
>>
>> Francis died Sunday at a Santa Barbara nursing home.
>>
>> Francis, who had surgery and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lung
>> cancer in 2007, died of complications of pancreatic cancer, her daughter,
>> Jane Uemura, told the Los Angeles Times.
>>
>> Francis, a stunningly beautiful blonde with a prominent beauty mark,
>> appeared opposite such stars as Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Robert Taylor
>> and Glenn Ford in some of the most popular films of the 1950s. But
>> “Forbidden Planet” and “Honey West” made her reputation.
>>
>> “Forbidden Planet” was hailed in Leonard Maltin’s “2006 Movie Guide” as
>> “one of the most ambitious and intelligent films of its genre.”
>>
>> A science-fiction retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” the 1956 film
>> had Leslie Nielsen and other space travelers visiting a planet where
>> expatriate scientist Walter Pidgeon, his daughter (Francis) and their
>> helper, Robby the Robot, built a settlement.
>>
>> Before filming began, the actors held a meeting and agreed “to be as
>> serious about this film as we could be,” Francis said in a 1999 interview.
>>
>> “We could have hammed it up, but we wanted to be as sincere as we could,”
>> she said.
>>
>> In “Honey West,” which aired from 1965 to 1966, Francis’ private detective
>> character – who kept a pet ocelot, a wildcat – was a female James Bond:
>> sexy, stylish and as good with martial arts as she was with a gun.
>>
>> She was nominated for an Emmy for the role, which lasted 30 episodes.
>>
>> “A lot of people speak to me about Honey West,” Francis recalled. “The
>> character made young women think there was more they could reach for. It
>> encouraged a lot of people.”
>>
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>>
>> Who can forget . . .
>>
>> "Honey West"
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLbPTT7o3w
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Rest well, Anne.
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>
>> - Unknown
>>
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