Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Zola Taylor (Halle Berry) fell a tiny bit in love with Frankie Lymon (Larenz Tate) the first time she saw him perform onstage. When he was singing, he was working magic with the audience, and it worked on Zola, too. She... See more was beautiful, and a successful singer in her own right with the top-ranked group The Platters, but Frankie was something else — a star. With songs like the smash hit Why Do Fools Fall In Love that he wrote and performed, he was going to make history. The day she became Mrs. Frankie Lymon was the happiest day of Zola’s life.