Fran Jeffries

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Fran Jeffries : biography

May 18, 1937 –

Fran Jeffries (born May 18, 1937) is an American singer, actress, and model.

Filmography

  • The Buccaneer (1958) as Cariba – Mawbee Girl
  • The Pink Panther (1963) as Greek ‘cousin’
  • Sex and the Single Girl (1964) as Gretchen
  • A Shot in the Dark (1964)
  • Harum Scarum (1965) as Aishah
  • A Talent for Loving (1969)
  • Police Woman (1 episode, 1976) as Tracy

Personal life

Jeffries has been married three times:

  • Steven Schaeffer, musician, (March 16, 1971 – September 1973) (divorced)
  • Richard Quine (1920–1989), actor, producer, director (1965 – June 10, 1969) (divorced)
  • Dick Haymes (1918–1980), actor, singer, (1958 – January 1965) (divorced)

Has 1 daughter, Stephanie Haymes Roven.http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/142/Fran+Jeffries

Career

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 she danced provocatively around a fireplace.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjeW3zBRvBM 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 sang on The Tom Jones Show in 1969 with the host, doing a duet of "You’ve Got What it Takes". She was featured in Playboy Magazine a couple years later, in 1971 at the age of 33, in a pictorial entitled "Frantastic!". In 1982 she posed a second time for Playboy at the age of 45. This second pictorial was titled "Still Frantastic!".http://movies.nytimes.com/person/893172/Fran-Jeffries/filmography

Discography

"Sex and the Single Girl" was released on MGM in 1964 as a single and an LP. In 1966, Fran Jeffries recorded an album for Monument Records, This Is Fran Jeffries; a collection of standards and popular songs, produced by Fred Foster with arrangements by Dick Grove and Bill Justis, including a rendition of Lennon–McCartney’s "Yesterday". Other recordings include an LP on Warwick (Fran: Can Really Hang You Up The Most). In 2000, Jeffries released a recording All the Love, again a collection of standards.

Song recordings:

  • Sex and the Single Girl
  • Yesterday
  • Springtime (Can Really Hang You Up the Most)
  • All the Love
  • Gone Now
  • My Lonely Corner
  • Life Goes On
  • Honey and Wine
  • Ain’t Misbehavin’

Songs for movies:

  • Meglio Stasera
  • Sex and the Single Girl
  • The Anniversary Song