Frances Langford
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1913-04-04 (92 years old)
Deathday
2005-07-11
Place of Birth
Hernando, Florida, USA
Also known As
Julia Frances Newbern-Langford
Frances Langford
Biography
Frances Langford won fame on radio (primarily as Bob Hope's vocalist, later sparring comically with Don Ameche as "The Bickersons"), via recordings and in the movies. In spite of the fact that she played mostly in minor musicals (plus appearing occasionally in "A" productions, including Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), This Is the Army (1943) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954)), she introduced major songs like "I'm in the Mood for Love" in Every Night at Eight (1935), "You are My Lucky Star" and "Broadway Rhythm" in Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), Cole Porter's "Easy to Love" in Born to Dance (1936) and "Hooray for Hollywood" in Hollywood Hotel ...
Acting
1942
as Singer
1946
as Frances Langford - Guest
1943
as Herself
1938
as Alice
1936
as 'Peppy' Turner
1954
as Frances Langford
1940
as Eileen Eilers
1941
as Virginia Collinge
1946
as Louise Anderson
1988
as Self (archive footage)
1944
as Joan Terry
1940
as Alice
1948
as Herself, Vocalist, Frances Langford (singing voice)
1937
as Ruth Allison
1949
as Janet Masters
1944
as Flo Daniels
1935
as Susan Moore
1940
as Pat Abbott
1947
as Ann Rogers
1936
as Joan Smythe
1945
as Sally Baker
1948
as Frances Langford
1941
as Patricia Loring / Evelyn Loring Waters
1935
as Frances Langford
2002
as Self (archive footage)
2003
as Frances Langford (voice) (archive sound)
1944
as Susan Jackson
1943
as Frances Langford
1943
as Julie Russell
1949
as (archive footage)
1942
as Beth Cornell
1936
as Miss Hay
1943
as Babs Lee
1943
as Self
2017
as Self (archive footage)
1951
as Frances Langford
1954
1944
as Self
1933
as Singer
1987
as Self (archive footage)
1985
as From 'Born to Dance' (archive footage)
1955
as Singer (archive footage)
Production
1951
as Writer
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