[Vision2020] Yet, Another Fantasy From My Youth Gone . . .

[Carl Westberg]

The two big stars of "Forbidden Planet" (although maybe Robbie the robot was the true star), Leslie Nielsen and Anne Francis gone within weeks of each other.  "Forbidden Planet" has to be one of my ten favorite movies.  Great twist on Shakespeare and the Id, solid acting and Anne Francis in a very short skirt.  Who could ask for more?
 

> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 06:32:09 -0800
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Yet, Another Fantasy From My Youth Gone . . .
> 
> Courtesy of today's (January 4, 2011) Spokesman-Review.
> 
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> 
> ‘Forbidden Planet’ actress Anne Francis, 80, dies
> Role in ‘Honey West’ earned Emmy nomination
> 
> LOS ANGELES – Actress Anne Francis, who was the love interest in the 1950s
> science-fiction classic “Forbidden Planet” and later was a sexy private
> eye in “Honey West” on TV, has died at age 80.
> 
> Francis died Sunday at a Santa Barbara nursing home.
> 
> Francis, who had surgery and chemotherapy after being diagnosed with lung
> cancer in 2007, died of complications of pancreatic cancer, her daughter,
> Jane Uemura, told the Los Angeles Times.
> 
> Francis, a stunningly beautiful blonde with a prominent beauty mark,
> appeared opposite such stars as Spencer Tracy, Paul Newman, Robert Taylor
> and Glenn Ford in some of the most popular films of the 1950s. But
> “Forbidden Planet” and “Honey West” made her reputation.
> 
> “Forbidden Planet” was hailed in Leonard Maltin’s “2006 Movie Guide” as
> “one of the most ambitious and intelligent films of its genre.”
> 
> A science-fiction retelling of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” the 1956 film
> had Leslie Nielsen and other space travelers visiting a planet where
> expatriate scientist Walter Pidgeon, his daughter (Francis) and their
> helper, Robby the Robot, built a settlement.
> 
> Before filming began, the actors held a meeting and agreed “to be as
> serious about this film as we could be,” Francis said in a 1999 interview.
> 
> “We could have hammed it up, but we wanted to be as sincere as we could,”
> she said.
> 
> In “Honey West,” which aired from 1965 to 1966, Francis’ private detective
> character – who kept a pet ocelot, a wildcat – was a female James Bond:
> sexy, stylish and as good with martial arts as she was with a gun.
> 
> She was nominated for an Emmy for the role, which lasted 30 episodes.
> 
> “A lot of people speak to me about Honey West,” Francis recalled. “The
> character made young women think there was more they could reach for. It
> encouraged a lot of people.”
> 
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> 
> Who can forget . . .
> 
> "Honey West"
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcLbPTT7o3w
> 
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> 
> Rest well, Anne.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> 
> - Unknown
> 
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