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Francis made sporadic television appearances throughout the 1980s, with her final appearances being during Mark Goodson's birthday party and on The Howard Stern Show with Robin Quivers and Kitty Carlisle, in 1991.
She also was host of a radio dating show called "Blind Date," which was adapted to a TV series in 1949 (Your Big Moment (1949)), and she was the host (1949-1952). It was television that brought Arlene fame, and she became one of the highest-paid women in TV.
- January 1, 1
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- January 1, 1
- San Francisco, California, USA
Eventually, she, too, hosted a show: ABC's Your Big Moment (1949), making her the first woman to host a TV game show. Her school-day aspirations for theater found satisfaction in 1936 when she debuted in "One Good Year" and landed a major role in the 1938 Broadway production of "All That Glitters."
- October 20, 1907
- May 31, 2001
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A long-time friend and colleague of Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis figured into the multi-faceted life of the journalist-television-radio personality as a co-panelist on What's My Line? But her story begins far from twinkling New York City studios, in Turkey, under the Ottoman Empire.
U.S. Television: The Perils of Arlene. 4 minute read. TIME. September 9, 1957 12:00 AM GMT-4. W hen she was 24, Arlene Francis Kazanjian, lithe, brunette daughter of an Armenian portrait...
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Francis briefly had her own television show, the "Arlene Francis Show," and hosted a radio program, "Arlene Francis at Sardi's." As late as 1981, she was co-hosting the "Prime of Your Life" on WNBC-TV, New York. Francis was married to Neil Agnew, a movie executive, for ten years.
