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Actress, Connie Francis, was born Concetta Rosemarie Franconero on Dec 12, 1938 in Newark, NJ. As of December 2025, Connie Francis was 87 years old.

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Film Albums: Happiness - on Broadway Today

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jul 19, 2025 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

This week, we lost one of the greatest talents in the music world - Miss - who passed away at the age of 87. Francis, or Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero as she born, skyrocketed to fame at the age of 19 with the release of "Who's Sorry Now?" which was popularized on Dick Clark's Americ... Read full article


Film Albums: Sings Award Winning Motion Picture Hits

By The Metzinger Sisters on May 27, 2023 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

For this month's Film Albums post, we have a gem of an album from MGM Records: Sings Award-Winning Motion Picture Hits. If you like and you like movie music, you will love this album because there is a nice selection of songs spanning the 1920s to the 1950s all of which... Read full article


What do James Stewart, Billy Wilder, and Have in Common?

By Rick29 on Jun 9, 2014 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

The answer is the melodic strains of the of the song "Senza Fine." Italian composer Gino Paoli wrote "Senza Fine" in 1961. Although a popular success, it was not his biggest hit in his native country. That would be "Sapore Di Sale" or "Il Cielo in una Stanza." While those songs still have their ard... Read full article


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She originally did not want to sing her first smash hit, "Who's Sorry Now", since it was originally written in the 1930s. Her father convinced her otherwise.

Singer Gloria Estefan has been very vocal since the mid-1990s that she is interested in playing Connie in a movie about her life.

The news of President John F. Kennedy's assassination reached her on the set of her third MGM film, Looking for Love (1964). She recorded the single "In The Summer of His Years" in honor of the fallen president and packaged it in a conservative gold sleeve with no photos. All proceeds from the song were donated to the family of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippitt, who had been shot and killed by alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

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