Kay Francis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1905-01-13 (63 years old)

Deathday

1968-08-26

Place of Birth

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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.

Acting

1932

Trouble in Paradise

as Mariette Colet

1929

The Cocoanuts

as Penelope

1939

In Name Only

as Maida Walker

1939

King of the Underworld

as Dr. Carole Nelson

1932

One Way Passage

as Joan Ames

1945

Allotment Wives

as Sheila Seymour

1941

Charley's Aunt

as Donna Lucia

1932

Jewel Robbery

as Baroness Teri Hohenfels

1933

The House on 56th Street

as Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone

1937

Confession

as Vera Kowalska

1937

Another Dawn

as Julia Ashton Wister

1932

Man Wanted

as Lois Ames

1941

The Feminine Touch

as Nellie Woods

1942

Always in My Heart

as Marjorie Scott

1931

Girls About Town

as Wanda Howard

1930

Raffles

as Gwen

1944

Four Jills in a Jeep

as Kay Francis

1946

Wife Wanted

as Carole Raymond

1933

I Loved a Woman

as Laura McDonald

1931

Transgression

as Elsie Maury

1937

First Lady

as Lucy Chase Wayne

1934

Dr. Monica

as Dr. Monica Braden

1941

Play Girl

as Grace Herbert

1940

It's a Date

as Georgia Drake

1940

1934

Wonder Bar

as Liane Renaud

1934

British Agent

as Elena Moura

1935

The Goose and the Gander

as Georgiana Summers

1931

Scandal Sheet

as Edith Flint

1932

Street of Women

as Natalie 'Nat' Upton

1931

Guilty Hands

as Marjorie West

1945

Divorce

as Diane Carter

1929

Dangerous Curves

as Zara Flynn

1929

1932

Strangers in Love

as Diana Merrow

1930

Let's Go Native

as Constance Cook

1938

1932

Cynara

as Clemency Warlock

1930

Street of Chance

as Alma Marsden

1930

A Notorious Affair

as Countess Olga Balakireff

1930

The Virtuous Sin

as Marya Ivanova Sablin

1935

Stranded

as Lynn Palmer

1939

Women in the Wind

as Janet Steele

1936

Give Me Your Heart

as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'

1937

Stolen Holiday

as Nicole Picot

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1930

Passion Flower

as Dulce Morado

1933

Mary Stevens, M.D.

as Mary Stevens

1933

The Keyhole

as Anne Vallee Brooks

1930

Behind the Make-Up

as Kitty Parker

1935

Living on Velvet

as Amy Prentiss

1930

For the Defense

as Irene Manners

1931

The Vice Squad

as Alice Morrison

1938

Women Are Like That

as Claire King Landin

1938

Comet Over Broadway

as Eve Appleton

1931

24 Hours

as Fanny Towner

1935

I Found Stella Parish

as Stella Parish

1931

Ladies' Man

as Norma Page

1934

Mandalay

as Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang

1933

Storm at Daybreak

as Irina Radovic

1936

The White Angel

as Florence Nightingale

1935

Movies on Sundays

as Herself (uncredited)

1929

Illusion

as Zelda Paxton

1938

My Bill

as Mary Colbrook

1940

Little Men

as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer

1929

1930

1942

Between Us Girls

as Christine 'Chris' Bishop

1947

1941

The Man Who Lost Himself

as Adrienne Scott

1938

Breakdowns of 1938

as Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

2003

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1945

Allotment Wives

as Producer

1945

Divorce

as Producer

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