- Did two nude layouts in Playboy magazine. One, at age 40, was titled "Frantastic!" The other, when she was 45, was titled "Still Frantastic!".
- Popular, sexy, highly glamorous supper club entertainer and recording artist who was a steady fixture for decades on the Las Vegas circuit.
- Fran's second husband, actor-turned-director Richard Quine, featured her in a couple of his films: Sex and the Single Girl (1964) and A Talent for Loving (1973). Quine's first wife was actress Susan Peters, who was shot and paralyzed after her gun accidentally discharged and a bullet lodged in her spine while she and Quine were on a hunting trip in San Diego. Quine committed suicide in 1989 after years of poor health.
- Before she became a solo act, she partnered in clubs with then-husband crooner Dick Haymes. They separated in 1961, but did not divorce until 1965.
- In the late 1960s and early '70s toured Europe with Sammy Davis Jr.,and Southeast Asia with Bob Hope.
- Her father was a Greek immigrant who moved to San Jose to set up a restaurant.
- Former stepmother of Dick Haymes Jr..
- Ex-mother-in-law of Bernie Taupin and Bill Oakes.
- Daughter, with Dick Haymes: Stephanie Haymes-Roven (Taupin) Roven was born in 1959.
- Mother-in-law of Charles Roven.
- Granddaughters: Zoë Oakes and Hayley Oakes.
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