Kay Francis

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1905-01-13

Deathday 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

Actor

2003
Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)

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

1945
Divorce

as Diane Carter

1944
Four Jills in a Jeep

as Kay Francis

1942
Between Us Girls

as Christine 'Chris' Bishop

1942
Always in My Heart

as Marjorie Scott

1941
The Feminine Touch

as Nellie Woods

1941
Charley's Aunt

as Donna Lucia

1941
The Man Who Lost Himself

as Adrienne Scott

1941
Play Girl

as Grace Herbert

1940
Little Men

as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer

1940
When the Daltons Rode

as Julie King

1940
It's a Date

as Georgia Drake

1939
1939
In Name Only

as Maida Walker

1939
Women in the Wind

as Janet Steele

1939
King of the Underworld

as Dr. Carole Nelson

1938
Breakdowns of 1938

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

1938
Comet Over Broadway

as Eve Appleton

1938
Secrets of an Actress

as Fay Carter

1938
My Bill

as Mary Colbrook

1938
Women Are Like That

as Claire King Landin

1937
1937
First Lady

as Lucy Chase Wayne

1937
Confession

as Vera Kowalska

1937
Another Dawn

as Julia Ashton Wister

1937
Stolen Holiday

as Nicole Picot

1936
1936
Give Me Your Heart

as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'

1936
The White Angel

as Florence Nightingale

1935
I Found Stella Parish

as Stella Parish

1935
The Goose and the Gander

as Georgiana Summers

1935
Stranded

as Lynn Palmer

1935
Living on Velvet

as Amy Prentiss

1935
Movies on Sundays

as Herself (uncredited)

1934
British Agent

as Elena Moura

1934
Dr. Monica

as Dr. Monica Braden

1934
Wonder Bar

as Liane Renaud

1934
Mandalay

as Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang

1933
The House on 56th Street

as Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone

1933
I Loved a Woman

as Laura McDonald

1933
Mary Stevens, M.D.

as Mary Stevens

1933
Storm at Daybreak

as Irina Radovic

1933
The Keyhole

as Anne Vallee Brooks

1932
Cynara

as Clemency Warlock

1932
Trouble in Paradise

as Mariette Colet

1932
One Way Passage

as Joan Ames

1932
Jewel Robbery

as Baroness Teri Hohenfels

1932
Street of Women

as Natalie 'Nat' Upton

1932
Man Wanted

as Lois Ames

1932
Strangers in Love

as Diana Merrow

1931
1931
Girls About Town

as Wanda Howard

1931
24 Hours

as Fanny Towner

1931
Guilty Hands

as Marjorie West

1931
Transgression

as Elsie Maury

1931
The Vice Squad

as Alice Morrison

1931
Ladies' Man

as Norma Page

1931
Scandal Sheet

as Edith Flint

1930
Passion Flower

as Dulce Morado

1930
The Virtuous Sin

as Marya Ivanova Sablin

1930
Let's Go Native

as Constance Cook

1930
For the Defense

as Irene Manners

1930
Raffles

as Gwen

1930
A Notorious Affair

as Countess Olga Balakireff

1930
1930
Street of Chance

as Alma Marsden

1930
Behind the Make-Up

as Kitty Parker

1929
1929
Illusion

as Zelda Paxton

1929
Dangerous Curves

as Zara Flynn

1929
The Cocoanuts

as Penelope

1929

Producer

1945
Allotment Wives

as Producer

1945
Divorce

as Producer