Heenan, Frances (1910–1956)
Heenan, Frances (1910–1956)
Subject of a 1926 scandal. Name variations: Peaches Browning. Born Frances Belle Heenan, June 23, 1910; died Aug 23, 1956; m. Edward West Browning (real-estate magnate), April 10, 1926 (div. 1927, died 1934).
While attending Textile High School in NY City, met Edward Browning, a tycoon who was called Daddy because he was generous with his money; with his help, got a chorus-line job in Earl Carroll's Vanities; at 15, when the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children began legal action in children's court against Heenan's mother for neglect, married Browning who was 51; with mother's prompting, sued for divorce after 7 months, making headlines with her lurid accusations against him; awarded his entire estate (1934).
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