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Fran Jeffries

 
Artist: Fran Jeffries
 
  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Vocal Music
  • Instrument: Main Performer Representative Album: "All the Love"

Biography

Actress/singer Fran Jeffries (born Frances Makris) began her career in the late '50s, appearing in such films as Sex and the Single Girl, The Pink Panther, and Elvis Presley's Harum Scarum. Numerous TV, nightclub, and theater performances followed as Jeffries demonstrated her vocal talent, singing in the accessible, smooth style of Carmen McRae or Peggy Lee. Over the years, she performed with such diverse stars as Sammy Davis Jr., Tom Jones, and the Count Basie Band. In 2000, Jeffries issued the ballads/standards set All the Love. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide
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Actor: Fran Jeffries
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  • Born: 1939 in San Jose, California
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '50s-'60s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Musical
  • Career Highlights: Harum Scarum
  • First Major Screen Credit: Harum Scarum (1965)

Biography

Born Frances Makris, this singer/actress appeared onscreen from 1958. ~ All Movie Guide
 
Wikipedia: Fran Jeffries
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Fran Jeffries
Birth name Frances Makris
Born May 18, 1937 (1937-05-18) (age 72), San Jose, California, United States

Fran Jeffries , (born May 18, 1937 in San Jose California) was a singer/actress/model in the 1960s and early-1970s. She had a cameo in the 1963 film The Pink Panther, in which she sang a song called Meglio Stasera (It Had Better Be Tonight) while sashaying around a fireplace.[1] She also sang a number in the first sequel, A Shot in the Dark. Her figure was highlighted, albeit briefly, in a minor role in Sex and the Single Girl. She was featured in Playboy magazine a few years later, in 1971 at the age of 35, in a pictorial entitled "Frantastic!". Ten years later she posed a second time for Playboy at the age of 45. This second pictorial was titled "Still Frantastic!".[2]

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Personal life

  • Steven Schaeffer, musician, (March 16, 1971 - September 1973) (divorced)
  • Richard Quine, actor, producer, director (1965 - June 10, 1969) (divorced) who died June 10, 1989
  • Dick Haymes, actor, singer, (1958 - January 1965) (divorced) who died March 28, 1980

Has 1 daughter, Stephanie Haymes (Taupin) Roven.[3]

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