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Anne Francis ( also known as Anne Lloyd Francis ; September 16 , 1930  January 2 , 2011 ) was an American actress known for her role in the science fiction film classic " Forbidden Planet " ( 1956 ) and for having starred in the television series " Honey West " ( 1965  1966 ) which was the first TV series with a female detective character ' s name in the title . She won a ___MASK5___ and was nominated for an ___MASK44___ for her role in the series . The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare , believed to have been written in 1610  11 , and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone . It is set on a remote island , where the sorcerer Prospero , rightful Duke of Milan , plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation . He conjures up a storm , the eponymous tempest , to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island . There , his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio ' s lowly nature , the redemption of the King , and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso ' s son , Ferdinand . Fred McLeod Wilcox ( December 22 , 1907  September 23 , 1964 ) was an American motion picture director . He worked for Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer for many years and directed the classic family film " Lassie Come Home " and the science fiction classic " Forbidden Planet ", which were enshrined on the National Film Preservation Board ' s ___MASK40___ in 1993 and 2013 respectively . Naples ( Neapolitan : " Napule " or ; meaning " new city ") is the capital of the Italian region Campania and the third - largest municipality in Italy , after Rome and Milan . In ___MASK53___ , around 975 , 260 people lived within the city ' s administrative limits . The Metropolitan City of Naples had a population of 3 , 115 , 320 . Naples is the 9th - most populous urban area in the European Union with a population of between 3 million and 3 . 7 million . About 4 . 4 million people live in the Naples metropolitan area , one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea . Return to the Forbidden Planet is a Jukebox musical by playwright Bob Carlton based on Shakespeare ' s The Tempest and the 1950s science fiction film Forbidden Planet ( which itself drew its plot loosely from The Tempest ) . It was billed as Shakespeare ' s forgotten rock and roll masterpiece . Return to the Forbidden Planet started life with the Bubble Theatre Company as a production for open - air performance in a tent . A revised version of the musical opened , indoors , at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool in the mid - 1980s . It later moved to the Tricycle Theatre in London . After some rework a final version opened the Cambridge Theatre in London ' s West End in September 1989 . It won the Olivier ___MASK69___ for Best New Musical for both 1989 and 1990 . The ___MASK13___ for Best New Musical is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre . The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976 , and , renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier . Forbidden Planet ( also known as Fatal Planet ) is a 1956 American science fiction film from MGM , produced by Nicholas Nayfack , directed by Fred M . Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon , Anne Francis , Leslie Nielsen , Warren Stevens , Jack Kelly and Robby the Robot . Shot in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope , it is considered one of the great science fiction films of the 1950s , a precursor of what was to come for science fiction cinema . The characters and isolated setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare ' s " The Tempest ". Its plot contains certain story analogues to the play . Bob Carlton ( born 23 June ___MASK88___ in Coventry , England ), is an English theatre director and writer . He is best known for creating and directing the jukebox musical " Return to the Forbidden Planet ", which won the ___MASK13___ for Best New Musical in both 1989 and 1990 and has been produced in many different countries around the world . He has written several other plays and has directed episodes of the television soap operas " Brookside " and " Emmerdale Farm ".