Kay Francis

Personal Info

Birthday

January 13, 1905

Day of Death

1968-08-26

(63 years old)

Place of Birth

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Also Known As

Katherine Edwina Gibbs

Katherine Francis

Kay Francis

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress. Some of her film related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Francis,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Lux Video Theatre

Allotment Wives

In Name Only

Trouble in Paradise

Cynara

Jewel Robbery

When the Daltons Rode

The Cocoanuts

Filmography

2003
Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as Self (archiveFootage)
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1947
Blow-Ups of 1947
as Self
1946
Wife Wanted
as Carole Raymond
1945
Allotment Wives
as Sheila Seymour
Divorce
as Diane Carter
1944
Four Jills in a Jeep
as Kay Francis
1943
Show-Business at War
as Self
1942
Between Us Girls
as Christine 'Chris' Bishop
Always in My Heart
as Marjorie Scott
1941
The Feminine Touch
as Nellie Woods
Charley's Aunt
as Donna Lucia
The Man Who Lost Himself
as Adrienne Scott
Play Girl
as Grace Herbert
1940
Little Men
as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer
When the Daltons Rode
as Julie King
It's a Date
as Georgia Drake
1939
Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
In Name Only
as Maida Walker
Women in the Wind
as Janet Steele
King of the Underworld
as Dr. Carole Nelson
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
as Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Comet Over Broadway
as Eve Appleton
Secrets of an Actress
as Fay Carter
My Bill
as Mary Colbrook
Women Are Like That
as Claire King Landin
1937
Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
First Lady
as Lucy Chase Wayne
Confession
as Vera Kowalska
Another Dawn
as Julia Ashton Wister
Stolen Holiday
as Nicole Picot
1936
Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
Give Me Your Heart
as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
The White Angel
as Florence Nightingale
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
I Found Stella Parish
as Stella Parish
The Goose and the Gander
as Georgiana Summers
Stranded
as Lynn Palmer
Living on Velvet
as Amy Prentiss
Movies on Sundays
as Herself (uncredited)
1934
British Agent
as Elena Moura
Dr. Monica
as Dr. Monica Braden
Wonder Bar
as Liane Renaud
Mandalay
as Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang
1933
The House on 56th Street
as Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone
I Loved a Woman
as Laura McDonald
Mary Stevens, M.D.
as Mary Stevens
Storm at Daybreak
as Irina Radovic
The Keyhole
as Anne Vallee Brooks
1932
Cynara
as Clemency Warlock
Trouble in Paradise
as Mariette Colet
One Way Passage
as Joan Ames
Jewel Robbery
as Baroness Teri Hohenfels
Street of Women
as Natalie 'Nat' Upton
Man Wanted
as Lois Ames
Strangers in Love
as Diana Merrow
1931
The False Madonna
as Tina
Girls About Town
as Wanda Howard
24 Hours
as Fanny Towner
Guilty Hands
as Marjorie West
Transgression
as Elsie Maury
The Vice Squad
as Alice Morrison
Ladies' Man
as Norma Page
Scandal Sheet
as Edith Flint
1930
Passion Flower
as Dulce Morado
The Virtuous Sin
as Marya Ivanova Sablin
Let's Go Native
as Constance Cook
For the Defense
as Irene Manners
Raffles
as Gwen
A Notorious Affair
as Countess Olga Balakireff
Paramount on Parade
as Carmen
Street of Chance
as Alma Marsden
Behind the Make-Up
as Kitty Parker
1929
The Marriage Playground
as Lady Wrench
Illusion
as Zelda Paxton
Dangerous Curves
as Zara Flynn
The Cocoanuts
as Penelope
Gentlemen of the Press
as Myra May