Trivia
- In the Fall song "Telephone Thing", Mark E Smith repeatedly asks "How dare you assume I would want to parlez-vous with you? You Gretchen Franklin nosey matron type." In an interview for the NME Mark E Smith revealed that he had thought he had made the name up and that it wasn't a reference to this Gretchen Franklin
- Franklin was less than pleased to find out that Willy the pug was being chauffeur-driven to Elstree Studios where EastEnders is made, yet she had to struggle in on the bus.
- Franklin was a Tiller Girl at the London Palladium. They were famous for their high kicks, and, when Pat Wicks married Frank Butcher in EastEnders she provided the high-kicks at the wedding reception - she was 78 at the time. Similarly, she appeared opposite Eartha Kitt in an episode of the British espionage series The Protectors ("A Pocket Full of Posies"), in which she performed a memorable song and dance routine.
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