Fran Jeffries Profile

Fran Jeffries

	(Frances Makris)
18 May 37	is born in San Jose, California
	sings in San Francisco clubs at age 17
?	performs at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas
October 58 / 59	marries singer-actor Dick Haymes, Rita Hayworth’s ex. He’s approximately 20 years her senior. They also team up professionally.
?	has a nightclub act with her husband
59	her daughter, Stephanie, is born
61	splits with Haymes, privately and professionally
61	performs at Manhattan's Rainbow Grill, The Plaza, the Waldorf-Astoria, the Copacabana, and at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel
?	releases her album “Fran Can Hang You Up the Most”
c. 64	releases her album “Fran Sings Sex and the Single Girl"
64 / January 65	divorces Haymes
?	releases her album “This Is Fran Jeffries”
65	marries director Richard Quine, the ex of ill-fated actress Susan Peters. He’s approximately 20 years her senior.
June 69	divorces Quine. He will commit suicide in 1989.
Late 60s	tours Europe together with Sammy Davis, Jr.
	tours Southeast Asia with Bob Hope
February 71	does a nude layout for Playboy
16 March 71	marries Steven Schaeffer in Los Angeles. He's 26; she's 33.
September 73	divorces Schaeffer in Los Angeles
70s	stars with Dick Shawn in his Great American Dream show at Lake Tahoe
September 82	does a nude layout for Playboy again, at age 45
October 00	releases her album “All the Love”
15 December 16	dies at age 79 at her home in Los Angeles of multiple myeloma

Sources: Swingin' Chicks of the '60s by Chris Stodder, Kirk Crivello, Made in Heaven by Victoria Houseman, Movie Stars of the '40s by David Ragan
Recommended Books: The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool by Chris Strodder
Links: Filmography