Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.

From her novel Claudia and a Redbook magazine serial story "Claudia and David" Franken developed a play a radio series and two films. She was one of the artists and writers to visit Melrose Plantation on the Cane River in Louisiana. Her books included Of Great Riches (1937) Strange Victory (1939) Claudia: The Story of A Marriage (1939) and When Doctors Disagree (1940).

A. [when?][clarification needed]. She died in Tucson Arizona on June 22 1988.