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 Entertaining the troops was the greatest thing in my life. We were there just to do our job, to help make them laugh and be happy if they could. I`d sing a song, and I could just see the guys getting this faraway expression. I knew they were going home in their minds.
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In 1953, Frances again entertained troops with the USO, this time in Korea.
According to Bob Hope, the biggest laugh he ever heard from an audience occurred in 1944 at a USO show for young Marine troops on a remote South Pacific island. When Frances Langford sang the first line of her song, `I`m in the Mood for Love`, a Marine in the audience stood up and shouted, `You`ve come to the right place, honey!`.
Teamed up with Don Ameche on radio and on record albums as a battling married couple in The Bickersons.
During one of their USO tours, she and Bob Hope were forced to leap out of a jeep to avoid fire from a German fighter plane. They both jumped to safety in a culvert, with Frances landing on top of Bob. Another time they spent the night in the basement of a hotel in Algiers as bombs burst above them.
Frances was very fond of fishing and enjoyed her last years on a 57-acre estate in Rio, Fla. She and husband Harold spent much of their time on a yacht called The Chanticleer. Among her many charitable causes included the Florida Oceanographic Society on Hutchinson Island, where a visitor center is named for her.
She divorced first husband Jon Hall but they remained friends until his suicide in 1979; she was left a widow in 1986 by second husband Ralph Evinrude, whose family made the famous outboard motors; third husband Harold Stuart, a former assistant secretary of the Air Force under President Truman, survived her. She had no children.
Her steamy rendition of I`m in the Mood for Love (from her movie Every Night at Eight (1935)) was her trademark, and captivated soldiers when she was part of Bob Hope`s USO tours during World War II.
Teamed up with Don Ameche on radio and on record albums as a battling married couple in the `The Bickersons` (called `Drene Time` when program was sponsored by Drene Shampoo [1946-1947]).
Biography in: "Who`s Who in Comedy" by Ronald S. Smith, pg. 51-53 (article titled "The Bickersons"). New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
Former daughter-in-law of actor Felix Locher.
The name of her motel is "Frances Langford Outrigger Resort" in Jensen Beach, Fla.
She gave her last public concert in 1966 during a tour for the US forces in Vietnam.
Owned a big motel at the coast, with a nightclub.
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