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词条 Frances Rafferty
释义

  1. Life and career

     Early life  Career  Personal life 

  2. Filmography

  3. References

  4. External links

{{Infobox person
| name = Frances Anne Rafferty
| image = Frances Rafferty-YANK1943.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = from YANK magazine, 1943
| birth_date = {{birth date|1922|6|16|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|4|18|1922|6|16|mf=y}}
| death_place = Paso Robles, California, U.S.
| occupation = Actress, dancer
| years_active = 1942–1977
| spouse = John Harlan (1944-1947)
Thomas R. Baker (1948-2004) (her death) (2 children)
| children = Bridget Baker
Kevin Baker (b. 1950)[1]
| relations = Brother Max Rafferty
}}

Frances Anne Rafferty (June 16, 1922 – April 18, 2004) was an American actress, dancer, World War II pin-up girl and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player.

Life and career

Early life

Frances Anne Rafferty was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the daughter of Maxwell Lewis Rafferty, Sr. (1886-1967), and the former DeEtta Frances Cox Rafferty (c. 1892-1972). She was the younger sister of California conservative educator and Republican politician Max Rafferty, whose wife was also named "Frances."[2] At the age of nine she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California. At a young age she studied dancing, and her physical attributes and dancing skills led to work in the film industry.

Rafferty attended Miss Bryant's Day School and Bryant School while the family lived in Iowa. After moving to California, she graduated from University High School in Los Angeles.[3]

Career

Signed by MGM Studios, Frances made her film debut in 1942. She appeared in minor and secondary roles, and although she had a part in the 1944 film Dragon Seed with Katharine Hepburn and Walter Huston, her significant parts were limited almost exclusively to "B" movies. For instance, in 1948, she starred with Hugh Beaumont in the Film Noir movie, Money Madness, directed by Sam Newfield. Her only 'major film' role was in Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945).

During World War II she was a volunteer pin-up girl for YANK magazine, a publication for the soldiers of the United States military.

In 1949, Rafferty was a performer on the anthology series Oboler Comedy Theater on ABC television.[4] In 1954, she guest starred in two episodes of CBS's The Public Defender, starring Reed Hadley and based on cases of attorneys for the indigent.

From 1954 to 1959, she appeared as Ruth Ruskin Henshaw in all 156 episodes of the Desilu Studios CBS sitcom December Bride, with co-stars Spring Byington as her mother, Lily Ruskin, and Dean Miller as her husband, Matt Henshaw. Harry Morgan played the wisecracking neighbor, Pete Porter. When Harry Morgan and Cara Williams joined in another CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys in 1960, Rafferty was subsequently cast in seven episodes in the role of "Nancy".

Rafferty appeared in a number of different television programs throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Among them were two guest appearances on Perry Mason. After her retirement from acting in 1965, she made a final appearance in a 1977 episode of Karl Malden's ABC crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco.

Personal life

She was married to John Harlan from 1944 until their divorce in 1947. (Rafferty's biography on the Des Moines Register's DataCentral site gives Rafferty's first husband's name as "Maj. John Horton".[3] An Associated Press news story dated February 18, 1947, reported, "Movie Actress Frances Rafferty obtained a divorce today from John E. Horton, former army major.")[5] In 1948, she married Thomas R. Baker, and together they had two children. Following her retirement from acting, Rafferty and her husband operated a ranch where they bred and raised quarter horses.

Frances Rafferty died in 2004 in Paso Robles, California, just three months after the passing of her December Bride costar Dean Miller. With the death of Harry Morgan in 2011, none of the December Bride cast is still living.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1942 Fingers at the Window Clinic Switchboard Operator Uncredited
1942 The War Against Mrs. Hadley Sally
1942 Seven Sweethearts George Van Maaster
1943 Slightly Dangerous Girl Getting Off Bus Uncredited
1943 Presenting Lily Mars Showgirl Uncredited
1943 Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case Irene
1943 Hitler's Madman Annaliese Cermak Uncredited
1943 Pilot No. 5 Carhop Uncredited
1943 Young Ideas Co-Ed
1943 Swing Shift Maisie Office Worker Uncredited
1943 Thousands Cheer Marie Corbino
1943 Girl Crazy Marjorie Tait
1944 Broadway Rhythm Autograph Seeker Uncredited
1944 Dragon Seed Orchid Tan - Lao Ta's Wife
1944 Barbary Coast Gent Portia Adair
1944 Mrs. Parkington Jane Stilham
1945 The Hidden Eye Jean Hampton
1945 Abbott and Costello in Hollywood Claire Warren
1946 Bad Bascomb Dora McCabe
1947 Lost Honeymoon Lois Evans
1947 The Adventures of Don Coyote Maggie Riley
1947 Curley Mildred Johnson
1947 The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival Schoolteacher Mildred Johnson, in 'Curly'
1948 Money Madness Julie Saunders
1948 Lady at Midnight Ellen McPhail Wiggins
1949 An Old-Fashioned Girl Frances Shaw
1952 Rodeo Dixie Benson
1954 The Shanghai Story Mrs. Warren
1961 Wings of Chance Arlene Baker

References

1. ^http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/222/frances+rafferty/register.php
2. ^Source Citation: US Federal Census Year: 1930; Census Place: Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa; Roll 690; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 55; Image: 429.0.
3. ^{{cite web|title=Frances Rafferty|url=http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/frances-rafferty|website=DataCentral|publisher=Des Moines Register|accessdate=2 April 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402004519/http://data.desmoinesregister.com/famous-iowans/frances-rafferty|archivedate=2 April 2017}}
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|pages=777–778|edition=2nd}}
5. ^{{cite news|title=Frances Rafferty Granted Divorce|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9979719/eau_claire_leader/|work=Eau Claire Leader|agency=Associated Press|date=February 19, 1947|location=Wisconsin, Eau Claire|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = April 1, 2017}} {{Open access}}

External links

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  • {{IMDb name|0706261}}
  • {{Find a Grave|8682705}}
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