Anne Francis

In moving some DVDs around to find stuff for an upcoming movie night, I grabbed the complete Honey West collection of that 1965 television show.

Based on a 50-60 series of novels by Gloria and Forrest Fickling, the ABC show featured Anne Francis as a no-nonsense karate-chopping private eye, much in the vein of Dame Diana Riggs' Emma Peel from The Avengers, a series that ABC had just secured the rights to air and would actually sort of replace the Honey West series early in 66 because it was cheaper to buy The Avengers than produce Honey West as a television show.

Here you go.

It's a 30-episode run, and Ms. Francis actually won an Emmy.

Norman Panama, Mel Frank, Herbie Baker, who wrote almost all of the Flip Wilson show, almost all of the Danny Kaye show.

Anne Francis, them talking,

that was Herbie's too.

And actually Sextet with

The Jack and Ginny Wilborn Media Room.

If the Twilight Zone Rod Serling vision came to life, then I might be joined, I think it's Anne Francis in the After Hours, excellent episode when the mannequins have their free day in the human world.

Each mannequin gets their own turn to engage and interact in the department store.

Because I'm here with three football mannequins in styling football beaver uniforms in different combinations.

Back to the movie.

Now we've gone through, we got the opening song, which I love the line, by the way, Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet.

because that's one of those lines of convenience.

They just needed to get a rhyme in there and it just happened to fit.

So, yeah, this is some interesting people in here.

Anne Francis, of course, is a big name.

Walter Pidgeon and Leslie Nielsen.

This is when Leslie Nielsen was kind of like the straight guy.

Well, Richard Dadier is a war veteran and first-year English teacher, played by Glenn Ford, who gets a job at a pretty violent, unruly, inner city all-boys school where no one is learning much of anything.

But he's passionate about his vocation, and he needs to provide for his pregnant wife, played by Anne Francis, so he's determined to do his job despite resistance from both students and faculty.

This film, ooh, what a cast.

Sidney Poitier, as student Gregory Miller, whom Glenn Ford's character sees as a real leader.

From ABC Radio's weekday dramatic anthology, this is Theater 5, Episode 146, A Tale for the Nursery, first broadcast February 22, 1965.

Fran Allison is heard as Mrs. Baxter, with Elliot Reid, Anne Francis, and George Petrie in the cast.

Mort Golding wrote the drama, directed by Warren Somerville under executive producer Lee Bowman.

The program runs about 20 minutes.

They don't know

... common experience of, like, trying to remember what actress was in what show and, like, they keep getting the wrong name and, like, it, uh, like, Mr. Orange says Anne Francis and then fucking Mr.

Pink says, "No, Anne Francis was white," and it just spirals like this.

It's, it's, it's like listening to, like, a bad podcast.

Like, worse than this.

There was this wonderful science fiction movie, Forbidden Planet.

Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, just marvelous.

And I don't think even today, that was made in the 50s.

Couldn't do it any better.

Then she was asked about it backstage.

Macaulay Culkin and, um, Dan Levy and Annie Francis came out for Catherine O'Hara-

Mm-hmm

... and called her mom.