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Fran Lee Biography (1910-)

Born Frances Laderman, September 28, 1910, in New York, NY; daughter of Max (a garment worker) and Anna (a seamstress; maiden name, Siegelbaum) Laderman;married Samuel Weiss (an attorney), November 27, 1929; children: Barry L. andGene Lee. Addresses: OFFICE--Children Before Dogs, 565 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024.

Nationality

American

Birth Details

September 28, 1910

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• Credits
• BROADWAY DEBUT--Medea, Royale Theatre, 1947.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL STAGE APPEARANCES
• Mama Lucasta, Anna Lucasta, Old Towne Theatre, Smithtown, NY, 1950.
• landlady of the house, old lady of the levee, Show Boat, Rye Music Theatre, Rye, NY, 1958.
• Martha, Simon's Wife, Blackfriar's Guild Theatre, New York City, 1958.
• Also appeared in A Season in Hell, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1950; peasant woman, Embezzled Heaven; mother, The Drunkard; and in Across theBlue.
• FILM DEBUT--Miracle on 34th Street, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
• Splendor in the Grass, Warner Brothers, 1961.
• Funny Girl, Columbia, 1968.
• Madigan, Universal, 1968.
• The Producers, Embassy, 1968.
• Also appeared in Kiss of Death, 1947; A Face in the Crowd, 1957; Something Wild, 1961; and cameo roles in over five hundred movies.
• Credits; PRINCIPAL TELEVISION APPEARANCES; EPISODIC
• Fourth century woman, "Teias the King," Actors Studio, ABC.
• countess, Car 54, Where Are You?, NBC.
• secretary, The Defenders, CBS.
• supervisor, The Nurses, CBS.
• Also appeared on Studio One, CBS; Lux Video Theatre, CBS; Treasury Men inAction, ABC; Lights Out, NBC; The Play's the Thing, CBS; Buck Rogers, ABC; Big Town, NBC; The Clock, ABC; We the People, NBC; Edge of Night; Guiding Light; Secret Storm.
• Credits; SERIES
• Chinese godmother, Major Dell Conway of the Flying Tigers, DuMont, 1951.
• appeared regularly as "Mrs. Fixit" and "Tidy Dee Lady," Don Ameche/Frances Langford Show, ABC, 1951.
• consumer reporter, Great American Homemaker, USA, 1984.
• Good Morning, New York, WABC, New York City.
• Also on her own consumer affairs show, WPIX, New York City.
• Credits; SPECIALS
• Granny Franny's Winter of Happiness, KYW, 1982.
• People Are Talking, WPIX, 1979.
• A.M. Indiana, 1979.
• Midday, WNEW, New York.
• Maury Povich, KYW QUBE.
• Tonight Show, NBC.
• Steve Allen Show, CBS.
• Tomorrow Show, NBC.
• Joe Franklin Show, WOR, New York.
• Mike Douglas Show.
• Missing Links.
• Betty Furness Show.
• Virginia Graham Show.
• Sonny Fox Show.
• David Susskind Show.
• David Frost Show.
• Stanley Siegel Show.
• Regis Philbin Show.
• Sally Jessy Raphael.
• Writings;NONFICTION
• Fran Lee's Intimate Fix-It Book, Hawthorne.