Forbidden Planet, Honey West Star Anne Francis Dies at 80

Forbidden Planet, Honey West Star Anne Francis Dies at 80

Anne Francis, the actress best known for her roles in the 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet and the 1960s TV show Honey West, has died. She was 80. Francis died Sunday at a Santa Barbara nursing home of complications of pancreatic cancer, her daughter, Jane Uemura, told the Los Angeles Times. Get the rest of today's news Born as Ann Marvak in Ossining, N.Y., Francis, known for the ...

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Radiation Detection Goes Digital

RedEaredSlider writes "In science fiction, explorers wave around a single device and pick up many kinds of radiation â€" think of the tricorders on Star Trek or Dr. Who's sonic screwdriver. A professor at Oregon State University is bringing that a bit closer to reality, though in this case it's for finding radioactive material. It's a radiation spectrometer, and it works on a very old principle ...

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Forbidden Planet star Francis dies

Anne Francis, the love interest in 1950s science fiction classic Forbidden Planet and later sexy TV private eye Honey West, has died.

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