My World The Stage: Eighty-Five Years of Entertaining

Life is a journey, with many paths one can follow, sometimes knowingly, other times inadvertently. As a seven-year-old, after singing to Gladys Moncrief, the only path Franki could see was to be a great star like her. For years, whenever she performed, that picture was before her.

“In my childish innocence I felt that it would eventuate,” says Franki, “but life’s realities do catch up, as my book shows. Yet life has still given me so much. How can one describe the pleasure of eighty-five years of entertaining? It was a life’s journey of love, laughter, friendship and fun.”