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Arlene Francis
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Actor Born: October 20, 1908 in Boston, MA Death: May 31, 2001 in San Francisco, CA Biography:Most famous for her stage and TV work, "Arlene Francis" had a sporadic screen career as well. An only child, Francis early on adopted an extroverted personality to hide her lack of self-confidence. After attending Finch College in New York City, she decided to give acting a try, accumulating a handful of stage credits before making her screen debut as a "woman of the streets" in the 1932 Universal horror film "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932). The role called for her to be strung up by her wrists on an embalming rack while clad in a flimsy nightgown -- an image that infuriated her father, who demanded that she head back to New York immediately and stop "demeaning" herself in the movies. She returned to the stage, working with "Orson Welles"' Mercury Theater and co-starring in such Broadway hits as The Doughgirls in which she stole the show as a garrulous Russian sniper. After playing "herself" in... Full Biography
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