Did two nude layouts in Playboy magazine. One, at age 40, was titled
"Frantastic!" The other, when she was 45, was titled "Still
Frantastic!".
Popular, sexy, highly glamorous supper club entertainer and recording
artist who was a steady fixture for decades on the Las Vegas circuit.
Fran's second husband, actor-turned-director Richard Quine, featured her in a
couple of his films: Sex and the Single Girl (1964) and A Talent for Loving (1973). Quine's first wife was
actress Susan Peters, who was shot and paralyzed after her gun
accidentally discharged and a bullet lodged in her spine while she and
Quine were on a hunting trip in San Diego. Quine committed suicide in
1989 after years of poor health.
Her father was a Greek immigrant who moved to San Jose to set up a restaurant.
Before she became a solo act, she partnered in clubs with then-husband
crooner Dick Haymes. They separated in 1961, but did not divorce until
1965.
In the late 1960s and early '70s toured Europe with Sammy Davis Jr.,and Southeast Asia with Bob Hope.