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She was inducted into the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performance Arts category.

She was nominated for the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame for her contributions to Arts and Entertainment.

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.

Singer Gloria Estefan has been very vocal since the mid-1990s that she is interested in playing Connie in a movie about her life.

She and ex-husband Joseph Garzilli adopted a son, Joseph Garzilli Jr.(born 1974).

1967" She was voted Best Female Singer in Las Vegas.

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.

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.

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.

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".

Dubbed Jayne Mansfield's singing in The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958).

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.".

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.

Singer, composer, actress, entertainer and publisher Connie Francis was educated at Arts High School and was a music student of her father. At age 11 she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (1948) as a singer and accordionist. She has toured the US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Europe, owned publishing companies, and has made many records. For a time she had her own television show, and has performed in nightclubs and in concert.

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.