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Actress, Connie Francis, was born Concetta Rosemarie Franconero on Dec 12, 1938 in Newark, NJ. As of December 2024, Connie Francis was 86 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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Stated that the two highlights of her career, thus far, were her performance of the song "Never on Sunday" at the 1961 Academy Awards Ceremony, and her performance for troops in Vietnam in 1968 in which she ended with the song "God Bless America" and the entire army of soldiers present stood and sang along, most of whom were in tears.

According to a broadcast on the A&E Biography channel, singer Elvis Presley attended one of her concerts and had to leave for emotional reasons once he heard her sing the song "Mama" as his mother had just recently died. The next day Elvis sent Connie two dozen yellow roses with a note apologizing for his abrupt exit.

Was the editor of her high school yearbook.

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