She’s got style, she’s got flair, she might have credit card debt! Fran Fine, a makeup saleswoman turned nanny from Flushing, Queens, enjoys a life of luxury among Manhattan’s rich and famous, but it’s probably costing her a fortune. pretty big.
The Nanny, starring Fran Drescher as the titular caretaker, turns 30 on November 3 and the show is clearly a ’90s time capsule with a revolving door of cameos A-list invites and Fran’s bold fashion sense. The latter makes us question how she can afford her expensive taste. (Eagle-eyed fans will notice that she often strolls around Moschino.)
It helps Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy) pay for her room and board at his Upper East Side mansion off Central Park. In addition, she can save.
“Oh, you can always get your money back,” the nanny once quipped. “Mom once got reimbursed for a chicken carcass and she said the meat fell out on the way home.” She is also famous for saving a shrimp from the buffet “for later.”
With all that she saves, it has to balance what she spends, right? If one thing is certain, Fran would love her daughter to study math.
Here’s a closer look at how Fran is able to keep up in her Manhattan surroundings on a nanny salary.
After graduating from Hillcrest High School, Fran attended beauty school and helped run her then-fiancé Danny’s wedding dress shop. However, after he left Fran, she had to sell cosmetics door to door. Makeup sales staff salaries and commissions are based on experience and sales ability. Fran used her sales skills to convince herself to land a seemingly better job.
The first house she visits is Max Sheffield’s Upper East Side mansion, where he immediately thinks she is a candidate for the role of nanny in his family. He reads her resume, which is written in lipstick and lists her mother from Queens as a reference (disappointing UK native Max who thought it was the Queen Mother).
Fran has no professional experience with children and seems to lack the discretion that Max is looking for in a nanny. But because Max urgently needed to fill the role, Fran took the job on a trial basis and the rest was scheduled.
After graduating from Hillcrest High School, Fran attended beauty school and helped run her then-fiancé Danny’s wedding dress shop. However, after he left Fran, she had to sell cosmetics door to door. Makeup sales staff salaries and commissions are based on experience and sales ability. Fran used her sales skills to convince herself to land a seemingly better job.
The first house she visits is Max Sheffield’s Upper East Side mansion, where he immediately thinks she is a candidate for the role of nanny in his family. He reads her resume, which is written in lipstick and lists her mother from Queens as a reference (disappointing UK native Max who thought it was the Queen Mother).
Fran has no professional experience with children and seems to lack the discretion that Max is looking for in a nanny. But because Max urgently needed to fill the role, Fran took the job on a trial basis and the rest was scheduled.
