[truthkeeper]

Gee, I want to read the Connie Francis story.

[GeneD]

This might help: it's from ShowBIZdata.com:

CONNIE FRANCIS SUES UNIVERSAL MUSIC OVER MOVIE LICENSES

Fifties pop star Connie Francis on Monday filed a $40-million lawsuit against Universal Music Corp., which licensed some of her recordings for use in allegedly pornographic and sexually explicit movies. She particularly objected to the use of four of her songs in the unrated film Postcards From America. (The film was described by Los Angeles Times critic Kevin Thomas as "tough, truthful yet compassionate" and by Andrew Guthman in the San Francisco Chronicle as "an angry, impressionistic cry -- a film about growing up gay in a hostile society." Francis describe it as a "vile, pornographic" movie in her lawsuit.) Francis's attorney said that when she learned of the use of her songs in such films, she became particularly distressed given her fragile mental health resulting from a 1974 incident in which she was raped and tortured in a hotel room.

[codebreaker]

Did Connie Francis win an Oscar for the 'Godfinger' song?..she should have

[Geezerette]

Connie Francis ... she really has had a hard life ... bullied by her father, raped in a hotel room in the middle of the night by an intruder, lost her voice for I don't know how long, and a succession of unhappy marriages.

I wonder how many FReepers remember Connie at the height of her career in the 1950's? Her real name is Concetta Franconera, I think.

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