The star of the 1960 teen comedy movie became a Fort Lauderdale sweetheart for eight decades, helping put the city on the Spring Break map. See photos through the years.

Connie Francis, the international pop singer who put Fort Lauderdale on the musical map with her spring break standard “Where the Boys Are” and who had an unexpected career resurgence at 87 with a song she’d forgotten she recorded, died Wednesday night.