Career
She appeared in the 1963 film The Pink Panther, in which she sang "Meglio Stasera (lieutenant Had Better Be Tonight)" while dancing provocatively around a fireplace. She sang the opening song "Shadows of Paris" in the first sequel, A Shot in the Dark, although she was uncredited. Her figure was highlighted, albeit briefly, in a minor role in Sex and the Single Girl.
She sang on The Tom Jones Show in 1969 with the host, doing a duet of "You"ve Got What it Takes" as well as "The Smokey Robinson Show" from the following year, in which she did solo numbers as well as an duet with Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder and the rest of the cast.
She was featured in Playboy several years later in 1971 at the age of 33 in a pictorial entitled "Frantastic!" In 1982 she posed a second time for Playboy at the age of 45. This second pictorial was titled "Still Frantastic!".
Fran Jeffries was born Frances Ann Makris to Esther A. (née Gauthier) and Steven G. Makris, a Greek-immigrant barbershop owner.
