Editing Connie Francis (section)

===Biopic===
Francis and singer [[Gloria Estefan]] completed a screenplay for a movie based on Francis' life titled ''Who's Sorry Now?'' Estefan announced that she would produce and play the lead. She said, "[Connie Francis] isn't even in the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]], and yet she was the first female pop star worldwide, and has recorded in nine languages. She has done a lot of things for victims' rights since her rape in the '70s.... There's a major story there." In December 2009 the film project was dropped. According to Francis:
{{blockquote|text=They chose to use amateur writers to write the screenplay. I wanted the writer [[Robert L. Freedman|Robert Freeman]] who wrote that miniseries ''[[Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows]]'', which won I don't know how many [[Emmy Award]]s, but Gloria and company were unwilling to hire that writer. I absolutely adored his screenplay of [[Judy Garland|Judy]]'s life ... he was so eager to do my life story for film, but she [Gloria] wouldn't agree to hire him and that was the end of that. And I'm sorry I wasted ten years with those people [i.e. the Estefans].<ref name=Daeida>''Daeida Magazine'' (December 2009) – Interview by: David Ybarra, p. 26, webpage: [http://www.daeida.com/DAEIDA_2010_Archive_Holiday2009.html daeida-AH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104184749/http://www.daeida.com/DAEIDA_2010_Archive_Holiday2009.html |date=January 4, 2016 }}.</ref>}}

In the same article, Francis said that [[Dolly Parton]] had been contacting her for years trying to produce her life story, but owing to her previous commitment to Estefan's organization, she was not able to accept Parton's offer.  She noted in the article that both she and Parton had considered, independently of each other, actress [[Valerie Bertinelli]] to play Francis.<ref name=Daeida/>