Obituaries
Arlene Francis, the actress and television personality who was perhaps best known as a regular panelist on the long-running quiz show “What’s My Line?”
June 2, 2001
Television
Television: In their own ways, Imogene Coca and Arlene Francis were pioneers in their medium.
June 9, 2001
Sports
Russ Francis is in his 13th season in the National Football League.
Nov. 26, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Tony Award-winning actor Martin Gabel, who starred on stages from Broadway to Hollywood, died in a hospital emergency room near the Park Avenue apartment he shared with his wife, Arlene Francis.
May 23, 1986
Once the applause had stopped, once the high emotion abated slightly, the audience packed into the Broadhurst Theater on Sunday for a benefit reading of Larry Kramer’s “The Normal Heart” was nearly unanimous in agreeing that Eric Bogosian should play Ned Weeks, the role that represents the playwright, when this work finally makes it to the screen, later this year.
April 20, 1993
California
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Nov. 28, 1985
Martin Gabel, sometimes a sinister figure in films, often a guest panelist with his wife, Arlene Francis, on television’s old “What’s My Line” and an original member of the legendary Mercury Theater stage and radio company, died Thursday.
May 24, 1986
George Spota, 75, Hollywood producer and manager whose clients included Jonathan Winters, Carol Burnett and Arlene Francis.
May 4, 1993
Retired NBC staff television director William B.
Sept. 29, 1986