[3] She attended Hunter College, but eventually dropped out to take a job at Macy's department store and gained an evening apprenticeship at Provincetown Playhouse in New York City.

"[9] Focusing on Chaney's experience after appearing in the "Holiday Song" episode of The Philco Television Playhouse (September 14, 1952),[10] Judith E. Smith cited details in her book, Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960:Blacklist enforcement intensified quickly between 1952 and 1953.

Frances Chaney, successful radio actress and progressive ... had been cast as the cantor's unmarried niece in "Holiday Song" when it aired [on television] in September 1952.

[11]On November 2, 1997, James Lardner (son of Chaney and Ring Lardner Jr.) wrote an article, "The Gilding of the Blacklisted" in the Washington Post, saying about his father's blacklisting and nine-and-a-half month prison term, "Even so, he was luckier than some -- luckier than my mother, Frances Chaney, who became unemployable in radio where she had been a star (Gangbusters, Terry and the Pirates) and in movies, where she was just getting started.

[4] On September 28, 1946, in Las Vegas, Nevada,[15] she married his brother, Ring Lardner Jr., and they remained wed until his death in 2000; they had one son.