Natural around Lakeland, Florida, Langford originally trained as an opera singer. Piece the lass she needed surgery in her throat, & following was forced to vary her vocal style to the other contemporary big band, popular music style. She began singing for radio when you took a early 1930s, and was heard by Rudy Vallee, who invited her to turn into the regular in his radio indicate. She was the easily-known radio performing artist prior to making her film debut inside Every Night at Eight in 1935, in which she introduced one of her virtually all popular songs, "I'm In The Mood For Love". From either 1935 until 1938 she was a regular performing artist in Dick Powell's radio show.

From either 1936 she began appearing frequently inside films like Broadway Melody of 1936 (1936) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney, in which she performed a popular song "Over There".

From either 1941 she worked on Bob Hope's radio show, & in the period of World War II she performed frequently sustaining Hope entertaining troops. Her association by having Hope continued into a 1980s; in 1989 she joined him for a USO tour.

She worked for many years in the late 1940s on Spike Jones' show prior to existence teamed sustaining Don Ameche in 1951 for a shortlived tv show, The Frances Langford/Don Ameche Show. She & Ameche late enjoyed great profits by owning the comedy radio series The Bickersons.

Langford was a carrier of 2 self coroneted kind tv show, Frances Langford Presents (1959) and The Frances Langford Show (1960).

She married threefold. Her number one hubby, from either 1934 until 1955, was the actor Jon Hall. Within 1955, she married outboard motor heir Ralph Evinrude. It moved to her estate around Jensen Beach, Florida and opened the Outrigger Resort in which Langford oftentimes performed. Evinrude died around 1986. Around 1994 she married Harold Stuart, who experienced been adjunct secretary of the United States Air Force under President Harry S. Truman and who survives her. She experienced there is no babies.

Although her greatest successes were around radio, her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street, acknowledges her contribution to Motion Pictures.

She died at her Jensen Beach, Florida home after suffering from either congestive heart failure, aged 92.