Kay Francis
Born: 1905-01-13 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 1968-08-26
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2003
- Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults as (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
- 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
- Always in My Heart as Marjorie Scott
- Between Us Girls as Christine 'Chris' Bishop
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
- When the Daltons Rode as Julie King
- Little Men as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer
- It's a Date as Georgia Drake
1939
- In Name Only as Maida Walker
- King of the Underworld as Dr. Carole Nelson
- Breakdowns of 1939 as Self
- Women in the Wind as Janet Steele
1938
- Breakdowns of 1938 as Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Secrets of an Actress as Fay Carter
- My Bill as Mary Colbrook
- Comet Over Broadway as Eve Appleton
- Women Are Like That as Claire King Landin
1937
- Another Dawn as Julia Ashton Wister
- First Lady as Lucy Chase Wayne
- Stolen Holiday as Nicole Picot
- Breakdowns of 1937 as Self
- Confession as Vera Kowalska
1936
- Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
- The White Angel as Florence Nightingale
- Give Me Your Heart as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
1935
- Living on Velvet as Amy Prentiss
- I Found Stella Parish as Stella Parish
- Stranded as Lynn Palmer
- Things You Never See on the Screen as Self
- The Goose and the Gander as Georgiana Summers
- Movies on Sundays as Herself (uncredited)
1934
- British Agent as Elena Moura
- Wonder Bar as Liane Renaud
- Mandalay as Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang
- Dr. Monica as Dr. Monica Braden
1933
- The Keyhole as Anne Vallee Brooks
- I Loved a Woman as Laura McDonald
- The House on 56th Street as Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone
- Mary Stevens, M.D. as Mary Stevens
- Storm at Daybreak as Irina Radovic
1932
- Trouble in Paradise as Mariette
- Jewel Robbery as Baroness Teri Hohenfels
- One Way Passage as Joan Ames
- Cynara as Clemency Warlock
- Man Wanted as Lois Ames
- Street of Women as Natalie 'Nat' Upton
- Strangers in Love as Diana Merrow
1931
- Girls About Town as Wanda Howard
- Guilty Hands as Marjorie West
- Scandal Sheet as Edith Flint
- Ladies' Man as Norma Page
- The False Madonna as Tina
- The Vice Squad as Alice Morrison
- Transgression as Elsie Maury
- 24 Hours as Fanny Towner
1930
- Passion Flower as Dulce Morado
- Paramount on Parade as Carmen
- Let's Go Native as Constance Cook
- The Virtuous Sin as Marya Ivanova Sablin
- Street of Chance as Alma Marsden
- Raffles as Gwen
- For the Defense as Irene Manners
- A Notorious Affair as Countess Olga Balakireff
- Behind the Make-Up as Kitty Parker
1929
- The Cocoanuts as Penelope
- Dangerous Curves as Zara Flynn
- The Marriage Playground as Lady Wrench
- Illusion as Zelda Paxton
- Gentlemen of the Press as Myra May