Watching Forbidden Planet for the first time since Anne Francis & Leslie Nielsen past away [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I met Ms. Frances in 2002 at a Twilight Zone Convention:

http://www.steveandmarta.com/graveyards/tzcon2002.htm

Anne Francis was very gracious. I had a TZ shot for her to sign, and asked her about her appearance in "Search." She didn't remember "Search" at all. I went through the actor's on the show and the premise, but she couldn't remember anything about it. My husband mentioned that he's had a huge crush on her when "Honey West" was on (I imagine half of the men in America who are between 45 and 60 could say the same!), and asked if he could give her a hug. She said sure, and he leaned over the table. She had expected him to come around the back and went "Whooaa!!" He apologized, and went around the back of the table, and she said the last person to do that had been Robert Blake, who leapt over a table at her. So now I'm teasing my husband that he lunged at Anne Francis.



She was wonderful. I wish we had met Leslie too. We did meet Warren Stevens at that same convention.

Warren Stevens has also been in everything, and we had a shot of him in his Combat! episode, "The Gun," to sign. He liked the shot, and told us some interesting stories of working with veteran stuntman and photographer Earl Parker, who had taken the behind the scenes shot. We also bought a photo of his from "Forbidden Planet," and I had him autograph to me a screenshot from his Outer Limits episode, "Keeper of the Purple Twilight." I had a complete stranger stop and ask if I had any more of that shot, which shows him with the Keeper, because they wanted to buy it.