- 11/6/74: After an appearance at the Westbury Music Fair in New York, she was raped at knifepoint at the Howard Johnson Motel where she was staying. She subsequently sued the hotel chain for failing to provide adequate security when she learned that a year after the rape occurred, the broken lock to her former room had never been repaired. She was awarded a reported $3 million.
- According to a broadcast on the A&E Biography channel, singer Elvis Presley attended one of her concerts and had to leave for emotional reasons once he heard her sing the song "Mama" as his mother had just recently died. The next day Elvis sent Connie two dozen yellow roses with a note apologizing for his abrupt exit.
- She previously dated singer Bobby Darin, who quickly ended the relationship once her father ran him off from one of her shows with a pistol.
- She originally did not want to sing her first smash hit, "Who's Sorry Now", since it was originally written in the 1930s. Her father convinced her otherwise.
- The news of President John F. Kennedy's assassination reached her on the set of her third MGM film, Looking for Love (1964). She recorded the single "In The Summer of His Years" in honor of the fallen president and packaged it in a conservative gold sleeve with no photos. All proceeds from the song were donated to the family of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippitt, who had been shot and killed by alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
- As a child she was asked by her father if she would rather have piano or accordion lessons. Since her father was an accordion player and often played to her, she chose the accordion, a decision she said she has come to regret.
- When her first hit, "Who's Sorry Now", first aired on American Bandstand (1952), host Dick Clark stated, "There's no doubt about it. This girl's headed straight for the #1 spot.".
- When she was first making demos, a New Jersey mobster approached her father and offered to place Connie's songs in every jukebox along the East Coast. Mr. Franconero protested, stating that if his daughter was going to make it he wanted to see her do it on her own.
- She was originally supposed to be born in Brooklyn, where her family lived at the time. However, her mother was visiting relatives in Newark, NJ, and attended an all-night dance when she went into labor.
- When show host Perry Como wanted her to sing the Italian song "Mama" on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1948), she was very hesitant as she didn't want to be labeled an ethnic singer. The performance gained such a positive response that she released several records in Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese and a number of other languages.
- Stated that the two highlights of her career, thus far, were her performance of the song "Never on Sunday" at the 1961 Academy Awards Ceremony, and her performance for troops in Vietnam in 1968 in which she ended with the song "God Bless America" and the entire army of soldiers present stood and sang along, most of whom were in tears.
- Dubbed Jayne Mansfield's singing in The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958).
- She and ex-husband Joseph Garzilli adopted a son, Joseph Garzilli Jr.(born 1974).
- 1958: She earned her first million dollars, topped polls for Favorite Female Singer and received 5,000 fan letters a week.
- Received a scholarship to New York University to study medicine after high school.
- When she first appeared on the scene she was written up in several magazines as being the new Judy Garland.
- Close friend of Kaye Stevens and Neil Sedaka.
- Her first national appearance was on Talent Scouts (1948).
- One of the guests shown on the episode of This Is Your Life (1950) spotlighting Connie was her fourth-grade teacher. Connie said that she always appreciated her support over the years, as the teacher she had the year previous told her that she'd never make it.
- Connie's birth name, Concetta, was the same as singer Connie Stevens. Stevens was born on 8/8/38 and Francis was born on 12/12/38. They were born on opposite sides of the Hudson River, Stevens in Brooklyn, N.Y. and Francis in Newark, N.J.
- Singer/songwriter Neil Sedaka was originally hesitant to offer her the song "Stupid Cupid", as he thought it was much too juvenile for her.
- Was the editor of her high school yearbook.
- She was nominated for the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame for her contributions to Arts and Entertainment.
- She did not learn to drive until she was in her 20s.
- She was not allowed to attend her high school prom by her parents but was permitted to attend her school's weekly chaperoned "Beehive" dances.
- She has been trying to promote a possible follow-up movie to her 1960s hit Where the Boys Are (1960) since the early 1980s titled "Where The Men Are".
- Singer Gloria Estefan has been very vocal since the mid-1990s that she is interested in playing Connie in a movie about her life.
- 1961: Singer Allan Chase released a vinyl 45 record titled "I'm In Love With Miss Connie Francis", backed with the song "Lonely Heart". The song gushes over her, often using titles of her songs in the lyrics.
- She was inducted into the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performance Arts category.
- She has appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) (aka "The Ed Sullivan Show") a total of 26 times.
- Was advertised in magazines to appear in an MGM movie titled "The Girl with a Definite Maybe" in 1965 but the film was never made.
- Based on the huge success of her acting debut in Where the Boys Are (and the film's chart-topping title tune) M-G-M signed Francis to a three movie contract. Two of the resultant movies (Follow the Boys and When the Boys Meet the Girls) were sequels to Boys Are but the third and final title, Looking for Love, proved to be such a box office disaster that Francis' movie career was all but over after making only a handful of films.
- 1967" She was voted Best Female Singer in Las Vegas.
- 7/3/63: She played a Command Performance before Queen Elizabeth II at the Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.
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