HOME WHAT'S NEW BIOGRAPHY PHOTO GALLERIES SCREEN CREDITS STAGE CREDITS ON THE RECORD MEMORABILIA SIX YEAR GIG ASHMONT A WORTHWHILE VENTURE LIZ'S DAD LIZ'S BROTHER BEWITCHED STORE WANTED ITEMS LINKS GUESTBOOK MAILING LIST CONTACT THE WEBMASTER SITE MAP		ARLENE FRANCIS (Constance Warburton)
				Broadway is reclaiming one of its favorite daughters--partially, at least--from the television screens which have made a household word of Arlene Franics' name. Even though she has returned to her first love, the legitimate stage, video addicts may rest easy, for Miss Francis will still be seen and heard regularly on "What's My Line" and "Talent Patrol," as well as any other show lucky enough to snag her for a guest appearance. She made an important name for herself on Broadway in the long run hit, "The Doughgirls," a racy comedy about wartime Washington. She also gave sparkling performances in "All That Glitters," "Young Couple Wanted," "The Overtons," "Metropole," and Edmund Wilson's controversial "The Little Blue Light," her last play until "Late Love." Stage-struck almost from the cradle, she was born Arlene Kazanjian in Boston, not too many years ago of Armenian and English-German parentage. After finishing grade school in her home town, she attended the Convent of Mount St. Vincent Academy, Riverdale, N.Y., and the Finch Finishing School. Later she studied at the Theatre Guild School in New York City. Her first professional break came after talking a producer into hiring her for "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway," a radio digest of then current movies. In no time at all she was in great demand for daytime serials, dramas, mysteries and newsreels. Actor-producer-director Martin Gabel is the spouse of Arlene Francis and they are the parents of 6-year-old Peter Gabel. A successful merger of marriage and career should be a full-time job for Arlene Francis Gabel, but she somehow manages to devote what she calls her "spare time" to the United Cerebal Palsy Association and other worthy and charitable causes, as well as lecturing occasionally to women's groups.