Frances Upton

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Frances Upton (b. 15 April 1904; d. 27 November 1975, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Broadway actress and comedienne who starred with Eddie Cantor in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1928 and Whoopee!. She also had a featured role in the early talkie Night Work. In 1929 she performed on a radio program specially broadcast to Richard Byrd's expedition to the South Pole. In 1931, she starred in one of the first experimental television broadcasts in New York City, appearing with Gertrude Lawrence, Lionel Atwill and boxer Primo Carnera.

Her father Francis was a decorated New York City detective and World War I veteran. Her grandfather William C. Upton was a noted member of Ireland's Fenian movement of the late 19th century, and wrote a controversial novel, Uncle Pat's Cabin (1882), about life under English rule.

On 6 May 1934, she married Bert Bell, later commissioner of the National Football League.