{"id":3860,"date":"2016-08-26T03:56:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T03:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2016-08-26T03:56:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T03:56:17","slug":"happy-birthday-francine-york-get-well-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/26\/happy-birthday-francine-york-get-well-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANCINE YORK &#038; GET WELL SOON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/afrancine.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3861\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3861\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/afrancine-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"afrancine\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>After her appearance on TV&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Land of the Giants<\/em> in 1970, Francine York told an interviewer, \u201cI can\u2019t escape playing the big parts. Why can\u2019t I play the girl next door?\u00a0 It seems I\u2019m always blowing up the world or something.\u201d Standing 5-foot-8 and measuring 38-23-35, it is no wonder the statuesque dark-haired beauty\u00a0was usually cast in bigger-than-life\u00a0roles. Francine made her film debut in the cult low-budget <em>Secret File: Hollywood<\/em>.\u00a0 She then progressed from featured roles in the early sixties opposite Jerry Lewis, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley to starring roles in such cult drive-in movies as <em>Curse of the Swamp Creatures<strong>, <\/strong>Space Monster<\/em>, and <em>The Doll Squad<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On TV, Francine York held the Robinson family captive on <em>Lost in Space<\/em>, vamped the Dynamic Duo on <em>Batman<\/em>, beguiled Robert Conrad on <em>The Wild, Wild West<\/em>, and became the living goddess Venus de Milo on <em>Bewitched<\/em>. Francine became so adept at playing these types of roles, that years later when the casting director of the seventies Saturday morning series <em>Jason of Star Command<\/em> asked her if she could play the evil queen, she replied jokingly, \u201cI am the queen!\u201d Always a pro, York had the ability to command and dominate the screen with her poise and confidence. She has energetically played so many different roles wearing a variety of wigs and using an assortment of dialects (Italian, French, British, Southern, etc.) that she became somewhat of a chameleon in Hollywood. No one ever criticized her for giving a lazy performance. And in a business that can be cruel, especially to older actresses, the self-determined Francine continues to act today.<\/p>\n<p>Read my interview with Francine York in my book <em><strong>Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema<\/strong><\/em> and keep an eye out for her upcoming memoir!<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Doll Squad (1973) Trailer - Color \/ 3:23 mins\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gvf55tSFJUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After her appearance on TV&#8217;s\u00a0Land of the Giants in 1970, Francine York told an interviewer, \u201cI can\u2019t escape playing the big parts. Why can\u2019t I play the girl next door?\u00a0 It seems I\u2019m always blowing up the world or something.\u201d Standing 5-foot-8 and measuring 38-23-35, it is no wonder the statuesque dark-haired beauty\u00a0was usually cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}