[We were just enjoying her in the episode "The After Hours" during this weekend's "Twilight Zone" marathon. - JR]
Anne Francis, who played the first female detective to be featured in a weekly TV series in 1965's Honey West, died Sunday of complications of pancreatic cancer at a retirement home in Santa Barbara, the Los Angeles Times reported. She was 80.
Francis also starred in the 1956 science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet and had roles in more than 30 movies, including Bad Day at Black Rock; Battle Cry; Blackboard Jungle; The Hired Gun; Don't Go Near the Water; Brainstorm; Funny Girl; and Hook, Line and Sinker. ...
More (w/pic):
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/forbidden-planet-star-anne-francis-67688
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