Robert Francis
and
Hollywood’s
Star and Studio Systems
https://youtu.be/knQ-62rrqZI?si=xTd0mlXtn4DAZm5n
Bill Big Anderson’s Death Tours
Information about Bob knowing and flying with Howard Hughes has not been verified from reliable sources. Bob died during the hiatis between the first effort to film “Tribute to a Bad Man” during June 1955 and the second scheduled for August 1955. Bob was buried on Wednesday, August 3, 1955.
https://youtu.be/zn8QLysZ-n0?si=pWOOjTtDQp44alav
Photo images only
https://youtu.be/5YkK8MFsxCg?si=eHV6uzhDzdTPN-yh
Video of Bob’s Grave Site
Forest Lawn
Above YouTube items posted May 2024.
28 images in Films - The Long Gray Line gallery were added April 2024.
All are from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Columbia Pictures Collection. All photos were taken at West Point, N.Y., in the late winter/early spring of 1954.
Thanks to DW for locating these.
https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog?htf8=✓&f%5Bmember_of_collections_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Columbia+Pictures+stills+and+key+books&sort=title_alpha_numeric_ssort+asc&q=robert+francis+actor&search_field=all_fields
See new section in Sidebars - Galleries and Information:
Beyond Pasadena:
Photographs, Postcards, and
Similar of Hollywood and
Los Angeles, c. 1920s-1950s
Please remember
Bob’s sister,
Lillian Jean Francis Robins
“Fran”
June 3, 1919-
September 19, 2018
See Sidebars section for information and photos of Fran and the Francis and Robins families. Without her friendship and support, this website would not exist.