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Date created: Sat, 07 May 2022 14:28:06 +0200

Arlene Francis

Arlene Francis & husband, Martin Gabel

with their son Peter Gabel:

Francis was born on October 20, 1907, in Boston, Ma s sachusetts, the daughter of Leah (née Davis) and Aram Kazanjian. Her Armenian father was studying art in Paris at the age of 16 when he learned that both his parents had died in one of the ma s sacres perpetrated by the Ottoman government in Turkey between 1894 and 1896, known as the Hamidian Ma s sacres. He emigrated to the United States and became a portrait photographer, opening his own studio in Boston in the early 20th century. Later in life, Kazanjian painted canvases of dogwoods, "rabbits in flight", and other nature scenes, selling them at auction in New York.

When Francis was seven years old, her father decided that opportunities were greater in New York and moved the family to a flat in Washington Heights, Manhattan. She remained a New York resident until she entered a San Francisco nursing home in 1993.

Francis died at the age of 93 on May 31, 2001, in San Francisco, California, from Alzheimer's disease and cancer.  She is interred in Roosevelt Memorial Park in Trevose, Pennsylvania.

Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen, John Daly

on

"What's My Line?"