The REAL Frankie Lymon


The REAL Frankie Lymon was NOT hot. He was no Larenz tate LOL!

He was basically a little dude with a baby appeal. He was fourteen years old when "Why do fools fall in love" came out. He died at the young age of 26.

Back then, it was all his voice, charm and dance moves. However, in the film they made him seem to have a grown and sexy appeal.


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He's the first on the right.

Frankie was the scrunny one out of all of the other singers.

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In real life Frankie was a guy who had a lot of women like most singers. Look at these rappers, most of them aren't attractive but they got a lot of women, because of their money and fame, same as back then. From what women said who was with Frankie, he had charm, he was little but he had game and he had a way of making women feel special. As a teenager he was suppose to have this innocent image but the movie tried to show backstage he was living wild and not living like a teenager at all. He lived fast and hard and died as a result of it. He was little but lived big.

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Its so sad he died so young. did it have something to do with having 3 wives?:p I'm watching the movie now

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Frankie was always involved in some type of drugs, before, during, and after his women. Someone got him hooked on heroin at a party in show biz when he was under 18. He was addicted for the rest of his life and just couldn't get off the junk permanently. I hate the movie didn't explain that Frankie was going through a lot of pains and hurts which is why he did drugs, he became a has-been, he lost his mother when he was 18, he was cheated out of money. A bunch of stuff was missing but that's why Hollyood movies are, they always leave stuff out and fabricate things.

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yeah after seeing the movie it was even sadder. Especially when his producer(?) says "you're a has been, youre finished" poor guy and when the women said "can you believe he was worth 4 million? he didn't have two nickels to scrape together" so tragic

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Frankie Lymon was a hard role to cast. Larenz Tate was adequate because he is small in stature and looked young.

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I read a review that said Lorenz Tate was all wrong for the part and came off more like a young Sammy Davis Jr. instead. I would agree that Lymon wasn't an easy role to cast. Since this was a biopic, they needed an experienced actor, which is probably why Tate got the role over some child actor who would've been more age appropriate.

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