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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1905-01-13 (120 years old)

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.

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Known For

Acting

2005

2003

Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)

1999

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)

1950

1947

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

1942

Always in My Heart as Marjorie Scott
Between Us Girls as Christine 'Chris' Bishop

1941

Charley's Aunt as Donna Lucia
The Feminine Touch as Nellie Woods
Play Girl as Grace Herbert
The Man Who Lost Himself as Adrienne Scott

1940

It's a Date as Georgia Drake
When the Daltons Rode as Julie King
Little Men as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer

1939

In Name Only as Maida Walker
King of the Underworld as Dr. Carole Nelson
Women in the Wind as Janet Steele

1938

Secrets of an Actress as Fay Carter
Women Are Like That as Claire King Landin
Comet Over Broadway as Eve Appleton
My Bill as Mary Colbrook
Breakdowns of 1938 as Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)

1937

Confession as Vera Kowalska
Another Dawn as Julia Ashton Wister
First Lady as Lucy Chase Wayne
Stolen Holiday as Nicole Picot

1936

Give Me Your Heart as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
The White Angel as Florence Nightingale

1935

The Goose and the Gander as Georgiana Summers
Stranded as Lynn Palmer
Living on Velvet as Amy Prentiss
I Found Stella Parish as Stella Parish
Movies on Sundays as Herself (uncredited)

1934

Dr. Monica as Dr. Monica Braden
Wonder Bar as Liane Renaud
British Agent as Elena Moura
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
The Keyhole as Anne Vallee Brooks
Storm at Daybreak as Irina Radovic

1932

Trouble in Paradise as Mariette Colet
One Way Passage as Joan Ames
Jewel Robbery as Baroness Teri Hohenfels
Man Wanted as Lois Ames
Street of Women as Natalie 'Nat' Upton
Strangers in Love as Diana Merrow
Cynara as Clemency Warlock

1931

Girls About Town as Wanda Howard
Transgression as Elsie Maury
Scandal Sheet as Edith Flint
Guilty Hands as Marjorie West
The Vice Squad as Alice Morrison
24 Hours as Fanny Towner
Ladies' Man as Norma Page

1930

Raffles as Gwen
Let's Go Native as Constance Cook
Street of Chance as Alma Marsden
A Notorious Affair as Countess Olga Balakireff
The Virtuous Sin as Marya Ivanova Sablin
Passion Flower as Dulce Morado
Behind the Make-Up as Kitty Parker
For the Defense as Irene Manners

1929

The Cocoanuts as Penelope
Dangerous Curves as Zara Flynn
Illusion as Zelda Paxton

Production

1945

Allotment Wives as Producer
Divorce as Producer