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Anne Hollingshead Francine (August 8, 1917 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress and cabaret singer.
She made her Broadway theatre debut in 1954 with Shirley Booth in By the Beautiful Sea. She stepped in for Bea Arthur as Vera Charles in the 1966 Broadway production of Mame, starring Angela Lansbury. She and Lansbury reprised their characters in the 1983 revival. She last appeared on Broadway in 1987 as Mrs. Harcourt in the Lincoln Center revival of Anything Goes, starring Patti LuPone.
She portrayed the role of villain Flora Simpson Reilly in the American television series Harper Valley PTA.
In 1979, she starred as the Evil Queen in the musical adaption of the 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Her film work included Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Stand Up and Be Counted (1972), Savages (1972), and Crocodile Dundee (1986).
She taught cabaret singers at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut even after losing her ability to speak after a stroke in 1992.
She died in a Connecticut hospital on December 3, 1999, after suffering a stroke and was interred in the Michael Ehret mausoleum on "Millionaire's Row" at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.
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TV Episode: "Committed"
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Categories: 1917 Births, 1999 Deaths, 20th-century American Actresses, 20th-century American Singers, 20th-century American Women Singers, Actresses From Philadelphia, American Film Actresses, American Stage Actresses, American Television Actresses, Burials At Laurel Hill Cemetery, American Cabaret Singers, Musicians From Atlantic City, New Jersey, Singers From Philadelphia, Actors From Atlantic City, New Jersey, Actresses From Atlantic County, New Jersey
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