Frances Gifford

Frances Gifford

Acting 1920-12-07 Long Beach, California, USA

Frances Gifford had a somewhat unorthodox introduction to the movie business. Born and raised in Long Beach, California, she had no ambition to be an actress, and in fact had applied to UCLA when, at age 16, she and a friend got to visit the Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where they watched a movie being shot. A studio exec saw her and asked if she would take a screen test. She did, the studio was impressed with the result and put her under contract. Nothing much came of it, however, other than bit parts, and she moved to RKO. Nothing much happened there, either. She had married actor James Dunn and decided to retire, which she did, in 1938. Off the screen for almost two years, she got a small part in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), and her career began to revive. She was signed by Paramount, which soon loaned her to Republic, where she made the film she is probably most remembered for: the serial Jungle Girl (1941), based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story. Unfortunately, her career never really took off, and she bounced around among several studios. In 1948 she was involved in an auto accident in which she received severe head injuries. Although she seemed to recover physically, her career took a nosedive, and she made her last film in 1953. In 1958 newspaper stories reported that as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident, she was admitted to a California state mental hospital. Nothing further was heard from her or about her until 1983, when a writer for a film magazine found her in Pasadena. She had apparently fully overcome her physical and mental problems and was working for the city library. She died of emphysema in Pasadena in 1994.

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2004 Doris (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1953 Jo McWethy
1953 Evelyn Crewes
1950 Margaret Higgins
1948 Laura Dene
1947 Anne Parkson
1947 Jean Tukker
1945 Viola Johnson
1945 Maude Bancroft
1945 Dr. Ann Wotters
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1944 (archive footage)
1944 Sissy Mortimer
1943 Helen
1943 Zandra
1943 Hilary Dane
1942 Abigail 'Abby' Taylor, Dan's Sister
1942 Nurse
1942 Frances Gifford (uncredited)
1942 Charlotte (uncredited)
1942 Grace Saunders
1942 Miss Halsey
1941 Doris
1941 Helen Forbes
1941 Nyoka Meredith
1941 Daphne
1940 Mary Mulvaney
1940 Granville Girl
1939 Hopper Girl (uncredited)
1939 Brenda Gordon
1938 Salesgirl (uncredited)
1938 Ticket Seller - Octopus Concession (uncredited)
1938 Nightclub Patron
1937 Mary McGuire (uncredited)
1937 Bus Passenger (uncredited)
1937 Showgirl
1937 Undetermined Role (uncredited)