Langford, Frances

▪ 2006

Frances Newbern  American singer and actress (b. April 4, 1914, Lakeland, Fla.—d. July 11, 2005, Jensen Beach, Fla.), acted in some 30 motion pictures and, with Don Ameche, starred as the combative wife, Blanche, in the 1940s radio series The Bickersons. She gained her greatest fame in real combat zones, however—as an entertainer with Bob Hope's USO tours during World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, singing ballads that included her trademark “I'm in the Mood for Love.”

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