About
Francesca’s Book
Playboy Bunny, model, Hollywood actress, Mafia Moll, lover to some of the screen’s most glamorous leading men, Francesca Emerson had done it all. Mother to three children, wife to three husbands, and in these reflective years of her life, sculptress, Black Activist and writer.
Francesca Emerson has done it all. Born into poverty, lost her mother when she was barely five, married her first husband when she was still at school just to get out of the stultifying home in which she was living, and grew up into one of black America’s most beautiful sweethearts.
Now, for the first time, in this tell-all book in which Francesca holds nothing back, you’ll read of what happened in Hollywood when the lights went out, and stars like Michael Douglas, Warren Beatty, Jack Lemmon and many others really got up to.
What an amazing life it really was like for a Playboy Bunny; and Francesca will tell you the inside stories of how a girl from Harlem grew up to be the lover of some of the most famous men in the world, a gangster’s moll, and holding the Oscar at the Award Ceremony for one of the greatest movie directors of all time.
The Chocolate Bunny is the funniest, sharpest and most revealing book ever written about what happens when the movie comes to an end, and real life begins.
TESTIMONIALS
Franny is an amazing lady, who I’ve been blessed to know. Despite the poverty of her upbringing, she’s risen to sit at the table and dine with some of the most sophisticated, creative and wealthy individuals – writers, producers, directors and especially movie stars – that Hollywood has ever produced. What a woman!
As a singer songwriter performing all over the world, I meet thousands of interesting people. I only remember some of them, and Francesca is one I remember fondly for her verve, her intensity and her unshakable love of life. I met her in a Chinese restaurant in Hollywood, and she demanded that I serenade her at the table where we were eating. I remember everything about that afternoon, except for the taste of the Chinese food.
If ever Nature designed a woman to be a model for all women, a universal Eve, then that woman is surely Francesca Emerson. We met briefly in Hollywood, and we never met again, but her magnetism and allure have never left my mind. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia, but women like Franny Emerson keep an author grounded
quotes from book
“This was the life I wanted. A life of luxury and ease; a life of new clothes instead of hand-me-downs, of deep cushioned furniture which wasn’t broken or threadbare and on which I could sit without fear of injury, of views of the seas and the mountains, the rivers and the valleys that I’d only read about.”
From the Chocolate Bunny
“I sat in the chair, even before he’d invited me to, gave him my most devastating smile, and said in the most confident voice I knew how, ‘Hi Mr. Hefner, I’m Francine, and I’m your Chocolate Bunny.'”
From the Chocolate Bunny
“I saw red when this bitch, who was kissing and fondling the love of my life, the father of my unborn baby, treated me in that appalling, dismissive and disrespectful way. I stormed across the kitchen floor, picked up a large carving knife from the meat-tray, and stabbed him in the chest.”
From the Chocolate Bunny
Video
Inside the Playboy Club
Playboy Bunny Costumes
Difference between a Playboy Bunny & Playmate
Personal
Gallery
Photographer: Douglas Kirkland
Turkish Delight, Adhem Sulieman
Francesca
Martin Landau
Keith & Hugh Hefner
Bunny By Ella Risebrow
Me with Steven Spielberg
Me photographed by Douglas Kirkland
Francesca
Bunny News
Book Signing
bio
“If they made my life into a movie, nobody would believe it. How could I capture those real-life amazing moments on screen, such as when Leonard Cohen serenaded me in an LA café? Or when I went to a farm in upstate New York and realized that I was sitting with a boyfriend who I thought was in the recording business, but was actually a member of the Mafia, and at any moment the farmhouse could be raided by dozens of FBI agents? Or the time when my mother died when I was just a baby of five and decided that I too, was going to die in a beautiful gown at the age of 23. My life has been amazing, and it’s only now that I look back over the decades of my extraordinary existence that I’m brave enough to write about it.”
– Francesca Emerson, The Chocolate Bunny
contact
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rebecca@goldenwrenpublishing.com
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