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Shown here at the Lighthouse Restaurant in Stuart Florida is radio, film, and Broadway actress and singer Frances Langford (1913-2005) with her first husband Jon Hall as they show off their catch. At that time, as shown on the sign, the business was known as Jerry Smith’s Lighthouse. Painted in large letters on the lighthouse were the words, Fisherman’s Paradise. Frances Langford was a regular on the Rudy Vallee radio show and from 1935- 1938 on the Dick Powel Radio show. From 1946 to 1951 she performed with Don Ameche as the insufferable wife Blanche on The Bickersons. As late as 1989, she was a regular with Bob Hope’s USO tours. In 1959 and 1960 she hosted her own TV variety show. In 2006, the Frances Langford Heart Center, made possible by a bequest from her estate, opened at Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart, Florida. (Photo courtesy Stuart Heritage Museum.)
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