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Mary Frann (born February 27, 1943; died September
23, 1998) was an United States|American actress.


Born Mary Frances Luecke in St. Louis, Missouri,
her mother involved her with Model (person)|child
modeling and at the age of eighteen, she was voted
Missouri's "Junior Miss" and went on to win the
1961 national title that earned her a university
scholarship. She studied drama at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois then worked for a
time as the host of a morning television show in
Chicago. As an actress, she appeared in a few
motion pictures, but worked primarily in
television. Mary Frann made her screen acting
debut in the television movie "Nightmare in
Chicago" which was originally broadcast as an
episode of "Kraft Suspense Theatre" in 1963.

From 1974 to 1979 Frann was a regular cast member
of the afternoon soap opera, Days of Our Lives,
and also made guest appearances on primetime
dramas such as The Rockford Files. She is best
remembered for her role as "Joanna Loudon," the
wife of Dick Loudon played by Bob Newhart in the
popular situation comedy, Newhart that ran from
1982 to 1990. In the years after Newhart she
worked mainly as a guest star in other series and
television movies.

Outside of the entertainment business, Frann was
active as a volunteer fundraiser and involved with
Charitable trust|charitable works. The night
before her unexpected death, she had been working
at the Los Angeles Mission, a Christian,
non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating
the suffering of hungry and homeless men and women
on the city's Skid Row.

Frann died in her sleep of cardiac failure at her
home in Beverly Hills, California and was interred
in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City,
California.

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