Kay Francis
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.
Born: January 13, 1905
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Known For
Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
William Powell: A True Gentleman
A biography on the life of William Powell narrated by Michael York.
Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.
One Way Passage
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
The Vice Squad
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
I Found Stella Parish
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
In Name Only
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Carole Raymond
as Sheila Seymour
as Diane Carter
as Kay Francis
as Self
as Christine 'Chris' Bishop
as Marjorie Scott
as Nellie Woods
as Donna Lucia
as Adrienne Scott
as Grace Herbert
as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer
as Julie King
as Georgia Drake
as Self
as Maida Walker
as Janet Steele
as Dr. Carole Nelson
as Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Eve Appleton
as Fay Carter
as Mary Colbrook
as Claire King Landin
as Self
as Lucy Chase Wayne
as Vera Kowalska
as Julia Ashton Wister
as Nicole Picot
as Self
as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
as Florence Nightingale
as Stella Parish
as Georgiana Summers
as Lynn Palmer
as Amy Prentiss
as Elena Moura
as Dr. Monica Braden
as Liane Renaud
as Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang
as Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone
as Laura McDonald
as Mary Stevens
as Irina Radovic
as Anne Vallee Brooks
as Clemency Warlock
as Mariette Colet
as Joan Ames
as Baroness Teri Hohenfels
as Natalie 'Nat' Upton
as Lois Ames
as Diana Merrow
as Tina
as Wanda Howard
as Fanny Towner
as Marjorie West
as Elsie Maury
as Alice Morrison
as Norma Page
as Edith Flint
as Dulce Morado
as Marya Ivanova Sablin
as Constance Cook
as Irene Manners
as Gwen
as Countess Olga Balakireff
as Carmen
as Alma Marsden
as Kitty Parker
as Lady Wrench
as Zelda Paxton
as Zara Flynn
as Penelope
as Myra May