{"id":9631,"date":"2025-11-17T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:48:18","slug":"beloved-stage-and-screen-star-elizabeth-franz-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/?p=9631","title":{"rendered":"Beloved stage and screen star Elizabeth Franz dead at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elizabeth Franz wasn\u2019t just a performer, she was a powerhouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among colleagues, she was sometimes referred to as \u201cAmerica\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/family\/fans-praying-for-actress-judi-dench-88-after-tearjerking-new-video-emerges\/\">Judi Dench<\/a>\u201d \u2014 and that\u2019s no small compliment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Theatergoers in New York first took notice of Franz in the Off-Broadway production of&nbsp;<em>Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You<\/em>, where she portrayed a sharp-tongued Catholic nun with fierce convictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franz originated the role herself, and in the process she earned an Obie Award, along with the friendship of several real-life nuns who initially arrived to protest but ended up staying to chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dWe ran for two years off-Broadway, but made so little money \u2013 it was $42 a week, I remember. I was going to have to leave it, because I needed money to live. Then a soap opera came through, so I was able to work all day on that and carry on with the play in the evening,\u201d Franz once&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsonstage.com\/news\/20-questions-withelizabeth-franz_24696\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/11\/17075836\/GettyImages-109677054-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-180368\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Franz wasn\u2019t just a performer, she was a powerhouse. Among colleagues, she was sometimes referred to as \u201cAmerica\u2019s&nbsp;Judi Dench\u201d \u2014 and that\u2019s no small compliment. Theatergoers&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions\/9632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informed24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}