On August 18, probably the most brightly shining stars ever to grace daytime tv was dimmed: Nancy Frangione handed away on the age of 70. And for those who disagree with that evaluation of the actress, we’ll wager that you just by no means noticed her in motion. She was a dynamo, current and thrilling and as reliably entertaining as her most notorious character was unpredictable.
The native of Barnstable, Mass., made her cleaning soap debut taking part in good lady Tara Martin on All My Kids in 1977. However the function for which she is most vividly remembered is that of One other World troublemaker Cecile DePoulignac. The much-missed NBC cleaning soap knew that it had in Frangione an ace up its sleeve, too. After she wrapped her preliminary 1981-84 run, she returned over and time and again.
Arguably, the MVP’s greatest storyline on One other World was Cecile’s love quadrangle with filthy-rich Rachel Cory’s son Jamie Body, stepson Sandy Cory, who simply occurred to have been a hustler, and his real love, Blaine Ewing. You may get a way of simply how irresistibly naughty Frangione was in motion within the scenes under.
Then once more, some viewers may need extra passionate emotions concerning the plot wherein Cecile did her damnedest — and her damnedest was fairly rattling good! — to maintain Cass Winthrop from Kathleen McKinnon.
Cecile was such an unstoppable drive of nature — she would have been nice buddies with the likes of Basic Hospital’s Carly Benson and Younger & Stressed’ Phyllis Summers — that she even provoked Rachel to the purpose of slapping her.
And, in fact, no true Cecile fan may presumably overlook her most legendary line of dialogue, uttered after she was dumped by Peter Love.
“As God as my witness, I’ll by no means inform the reality once more” ~ Cecile de Polignac #AnotherWorld #RIPNancyFrangione
— Matthew Smith (@Ky71Matt) August 23, 2023
Frangione’s different credit embrace One Life to Stay (the place she subbed for Andrea Evans as Tina Lord), The Nanny (as Fran Drescher’s cousin Marsha), Freeway to Heaven, Matlock and Buck Rogers within the twenty fifth Century. She teamed up with fellow cleaning soap stars Eileen Davidson (Ashley, Younger & Stressed) and Hillary B. Smith (Nora, One Life to Stay) within the 1988 TV rom-com Sharing Richard, with Ed Marino because the Richard in query.
From 1982-96, Frangione was married to her One other World main man Christopher Wealthy, who performed Sandy. They’ve one daughter, Mariel.
Scroll via the photograph gallery under to pay your respects to extra cleaning soap vets misplaced in 2023.
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