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For her role in Honey West, Francis won the Golden Globe award as best actress in a TV series, and she was nominated for an Emmy award for the same role. She also holds the distinction of starring in the first TV series with a female detective character's name in the title.

Francis entered show business at a young age, working as a model at age 5 to help her family make ends meet during the Great Depression, and making her Broadway debut at age 11. Over her career, Ms. Francis appeared in scores of TV shows and several movies, including several appearances on The Twilight Zone, including the title character in "Jess-Belle", and as Marsha White in the episode titled "The After Hours". In it, Francis is gradually revealed as a department store mannequin who has enjoyed a brief vacation among the living. Francis was a mainstay of 1970s television movies, and she returned to TV to portray "Mama Jo" for the 1984-86 TV-detective series Riptide.^[1] ^[2]

In 1956, she appeared as Altaira in the movie Forbidden Planet, (based upon William Shakespeare's The Tempest), released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, co-starring Walter Pidgeon and Leslie Nielsen. Playing the naive daughter of Pidgeon's brilliant but conflicted Dr. Morbius (the "Prospero" character from "The Tempest"), she added a touch of budding sexuality. Her character's love interest was a serious starship captain played by Leslie Nielsen.

In 1965, Francis turned to series television and was cast as "Private Eyeful" Honey West, a sexy private detective with a pet ocelot. The character was initially introduced on the popular TV series Burke's Law. At the start of the final season of "My Three Sons", she played Lady Terri Douglas, the new bride of Steve's Scottish (and look-alike) cousin, Fergus. During the 1980-81 television season, she had a recurring role as Arliss Cooper the mother of Mitch and Afton on Dallas.^{[citation needed]}

Her most recent television appearance came on a 2004 episode of the CBS series Without a Trace.

Francis was married to Bamlet Lawrence Price, Jr., from May 1952 to April 1955, and to Dr. Robert Abeloff, DDS. from 1960-1964. They had one daughter Jane E. Abeloff, born Mar 21, 1962 in Los Angeles, California. Francis did not remarry after divorcing Dr. Abeloff.

Francis won a brief battle with lung cancer in 2007-2008. She has recovered through chemotherapy and has kept her followers informed of her progress on her official website.

Filmography

With Clifton Webb in Dreamboat (1952)

This Time for Keeps (1947) (uncredited)
Summer Holiday (1948)
Portrait of Jennie (1948) (uncredited)
So Young So Bad (1950)
The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Elopement (1951)
Lydia Bailey (1952)
Dreamboat (1952)
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
The Rocket Man (1954)
Susan Slept Here (1954)
Rogue Cop (1954)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Battle Cry (1955)
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The Scarlet Coat (1955)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
The Rack (1956)
The Great American Pastime (1956)
The Hired Gun (1957)
Don't Go Near the Water (1957)
The Crowded Sky (1960)
Girl of the Night (1960)
The Eleventh Hour NBC medical drama, as Alicia Norris in episode "Hang By One Hand" (1963)
The Satan Bug (1965)
Brainstorm (1965)
Funny Girl (1968)
More Dead Than Alive (1968)
Impasse (1969)
Hook, Line & Sinker (1969)
The Love God? (1969)
Pancho Villa (1972)
Survival (1976)
Born Again (1978)
Return (1986)
Little Vegas (1990)
The Double 0 Kid (1992)
Lover's Knot (1996)

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