Lili Damita

Lili Damita died of Alzheimer's disease in Palm Beach, Florida and was interred in the Oakland Cemetery in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She attended high school with actor Ray Romano. During the Vietnam Conflict, her son Sean Flynn was working as a freelance photo journalist under contract to Time Magazine when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone went missing on the road south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on April 6, 1970. Although Lili Damita spent an enormous amount of money searching for her son, he was never found and in 1984 was declared legally dead. Drescher was born and raised in Queens, New York. Following the marriage, she gave up her film career, taking up residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The couple divorced in 1942 and Damita eventually married Albert Loomis, a Fort Dodge, Iowa dairy owner. She also had a role in the movie This Is Spinal Tap as Bobbie Fleckman. Divorced from Curtiz, in 1935 she married a virtual unknown who would become Hollywood's biggest box office attraction, Errol Flynn with whom she had a son, Sean born in 1941. Drescher's first role in a major motion picture was a bit part in Saturday Night Fever.

In 1929, she went to Hollywood, making her American debut in a film titled "The Rescue." Soon, she was an important star at Warner Brothers Studios, appearing with rising male stars such as Gary Cooper and James Cagney. She wrote about her experiences in the book Cancer Schmancer. She became the second wife of Hungarian born film director Michael Curtiz after appearing in three of his Austrian made films. Drescher was also diagnosed with uterine cancer, and it was eventually treated to remission. Offered a role in film, in 1921 she appeared in her first French made silent film before going on to perform in films in Britain, Austria, and Germany. She was paraphrased as saying in an interview with Larry King that although it was a very negative experience, she found ways to chalk her experience into something positive; she saw her rapist sent to prison. Born Liliane-Marie-Madeleine Carré in Bordeaux, France, by age 16 she was performing in popular music-halls, eventually starring in the Revue at the Casino de Paris. It took her many years to overcome this obstacle, and it took her even longer to admit this to the press.

Lili Damita (July 19, 1901 – March 21, 1994) was an actress. In 1985, robbers ransacked Drescher's apartment and raped her and one of her girlfriends. In her autobiography Drescher discusses the fact that this is, in fact, her real voice, and the many voice lessons she has had to take to overcome it for movie auditions (only to have it end up being her trademark). Her voice is a combination of a high nasal pitch and a New York/Jewish accent that many people find unpleasant. She is most famous for her somewhat autobiographical role as the nanny Fran Fine in The Nanny.

Fran Drescher (born September 30, 1957) is an American actress.