Connie Francis

Known for ActingBorn 1937-12-12Died 2025-07-16Newark, New Jersey, USA

Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero (/ˌfræŋkoʊˈnɪəroʊ/ FRANG-koh-NEER-oh; December 12, 1937 – July 16, 2025), known professionally as Connie Francis, was an American singer and actress. One of the top-charting female vocalists of the late 1950s and early 1960s, she amassed over 100 million records sold, placing her among the best-selling music artists in history. After a string of unsuccessful releases, Francis rose to fame in 1958 with her cover of the 1923 song "Who's Sorry Now?", which was followed by various other top-10 hits. She became the first woman to reach No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" topped the chart in 1960. She was also the first woman to achieve three No. 1 hits on the chart, among her 53 career entries. Before the advent of the British Invasion, Francis was the most popular female vocalist in the United States between 1958 and 1964. Francis recorded music in multiple languages, including English, Italian, French, German, Greek, Yiddish, and Japanese, making her a best-selling artist in international markets as well as in American immigrant communities. Between 1974 and 1988, a series of traumatic personal experiences, including a rape attack at knifepoint, led Francis to suffer years of psychological and physical difficulties that sidelined her career. She resumed performing from 1989 until her retirement in 2018. She regained prominence in 2025, shortly before her death, when her 1962 recording "Pretty Little Baby" went viral on social media platforms. Description above from the Wikipedia article Connie Francis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Starparade

American Bandstand

The Bell Telephone Hour

The Jack Benny Program

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Hava Nagila: The Movie

Flitterabend

What's My Line?

The Oscars

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Dick Clark Show

The Merv Griffin Show

This Is Your Life

Where the Boys Are

The Mike Douglas Show

Looking for Love

Legends

Jamboree!

When the Boys Meet the Girls

Follow the Boys

Neil Sedaka: King of Song

Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen

Soeben eingetroffen

Wieder zurück: Siegfried Arno - Eine Musik-Show aus Studio 3

The Big Beat