Larrimore, Francine

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Larrimore, Francine [née Fanya Levovksy] (1898–1975), actress. Niece of the great Yiddish actor, Jacob Adler, the blue‐eyed beauty with reddish‐gold hair was born in France but came to America while still very young and made her debut as a child in 1910 in A Fool There Was. Her first major success came as the baby‐talking, homebody Blanche Wheeler in Fair and Warmer (1916) in Chicago. Among Larrimore's later successes were the hired “other woman” Nita Leslie in Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1917), the brazen flapper Theodora Gloucester in Nice People (1921), the publicity‐seeking murderess Roxie Hart in Chicago (1926), the divorcée Kitty Brown in Let Us Be Gay (1929), and the nightclub singer Abbey Fane who marries into society in Brief Moment (1931).

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