Franne Lee family, wife, children, parents, siblings

Publish date: 2024-05-07

Frances Elaine Lee died on August 27, 2023, at the age of 81, in Atlantis, Florida, U.S., and she was well-known as an American costume designer for stage and film. She won multiple Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards.

Lee who is a costume and set designer while doing Tony Award-winning work on Broadway in the 1970s also made killer-bee suits and cone-shaped headwear for early “Saturday Night Live” sketches, helping to create some of that era’s most memorable comic moments.

Records had it that, Lee was studying painting at the University of Wisconsin, her daughter said, when she discovered her love of theater and costume design.

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Franne Lee wife

Frances Lee was married to Ralph Sandler and relocated to Pennsylvania when Ralph’s job took him there and was doing costume and design work for local theaters. The couple divorced in 1967, and Ms. Lee relocated to New York.

Frances Lee found love again and got into a relationship with Eugene Lee in the 1970s. Much is not known about their relationship but the two had a son.

Franne Lee children

Frances Lee had three children, a daughter and two sons who are Stacy Sandler, Geoffrey Sandler, and Willie Lee. She also has six grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

Franne Lee parents

Frances Lee was born Frances Elaine Newman on December 30, 1941, in the Bronx to her parents Martin and Anne Marks Newman. Her father had a small machine shop on Long Island, and her mother was an offset printing supervisor.

Franne Lee siblings

Franne Lee was not the only child of her parents. She has a brother named Bill Newman.

Source: Ghanafuo.com

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