Frances Heflin; Stage, Film, TV Actress

Frances Heflin, 71, stage and film star known best to modern audiences as Mona Kane, mother of Erica Kane, on the perennially popular daytime drama “All My Children.” Miss Heflin, widow of film composer Sol Kaplan and sister of the late film actor Van Heflin, starred on stage in productions of “I Remember Mama,” “The Skin of Our Teeth,” “The Tempest,” “Galileo” and “The Glass Menagerie.” Her movies included “The Molly Maguires.” She won an Emmy as outstanding actress in a daytime drama series for the 1975-76 season and in 1959 was seen in the short-lived episodic drama “The House on High Street.” In New York City on Wednesday of lung cancer.