'Forbidden Planet' Star Anne Francis Dies at Age 80

FoxNews.com ^ | January 3, 2011 | Associated Press

[LibFreeOrDie]

Actress Anne Francis, who was the love interest in the 1950s science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and later was sexy private eye in "Honey West" on TV has died at age 80 in California.

[ReverendJames]

When that lion thing hit that electronic fence it blew me out of my seat! Saw it in a theater when I was a kid. And then too, the sound it made when it walked.

[RobinMasters]

That’s right. :)

[longtermmemmory]

Susan Slept Here (1954)

[abb]

How many pints of whiskey did Robby synthesize for Earl Holliman? Like 60 gallons, wasn’t it?

[GOYAKLA]

I caught her on “Twilight Zone” Saturday night. She went to a store looking for a Gold Thimble, got on an elavator and went to ninth floor, when there was none, and enter the Zone.
She was in the end a store manequin.
May she rest in peace and God’s hands!

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

My Pop had a HUGE crush on her. My Mom was actually a bit jealous.

[andy58-in-nh]

Say, is that Rex Ryan in a robot costume?

[LibFreeOrDie]

[Tupelo]

I was a fan.

I always thought Miss Francis was blue collar Marilyn Monroe. Just as pretty and maybe just maybe someone like me would stand a chance. Well, not really but it was a real good thought.

[preacher]

Filmography

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004282/

[wjcsux]

bump for later

[good old days]

She always seemed like a nice lady when I would see her interviewed. Rest in peace, Anne Francis.

[RobinMasters]

The After Hours From The Twilight Zone

[Zionist Conspirator]

So sad to hear this. She was very beautiful.

She was also the living mannequin in that episode of "The Twilight Zone."

[angcat]

PING to Joe Penney and the other dude who plays in lifetime movies!

[fish hawk]

Watched that movie with a friend yesterday and we both cracked up when, on the ship, the captain told one of his men to look up the professor and the guy gets out a little box of cards, like a recipe box. My friend says, hey, this is way in the future, why doesn't he just Google the guy? Of course when the movie was made, there was no Google. Funny how technology has to catch up with movie fantasy.

[Jack Deth]

Anne was great in Forbidden Planet and as George Maharis' love interest in The Satan Bug, but she will always be Honey West to me.

I'm glad I caught Forbidden Planet on TCM yesterday.

Anne will be sorely missed


Jack.

[Ax]

She was smokin’ hot as Rae in “Battle Cry,” 1955.

[GOYAKLA]

Thanks, you are QUICK!
My wife and I like the old B/W movies and TV and TZ has alot of the stars as they came up to stardom. The TZ episode before Anne’s was with Charlie Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery.
Have a great New Year!