Kay Francis
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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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.061 |
| Birthday | 1905-01-13 |
| Place of Birth | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
| Also Known As | Katherine Edwina Gibbs, Katherine Francis, |
1932
Trouble in Paradise
7.4/286
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide t...
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Trouble in Paradise
1929
The Cocoanuts
6.4/113
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
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The Cocoanuts
1939
In Name Only
7/57
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.
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In Name Only
1939
King of the Underworld
6.4/24
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her lice...
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King of the Underworld
1932
One Way Passage
7.2/58
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 se...
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One Way Passage
1945
Allotment Wives
6/5
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
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Allotment Wives
1941
Charley's Aunt
5.8/6
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
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Charley's Aunt
1932
Jewel Robbery
6.5/38
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
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Jewel Robbery
1933
The House on 56th Street
5.2/6
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suici...
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The House on 56th Street
1937
Confession
6.1/14
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's l...
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Confession
1937
Another Dawn
6.2/8
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashto...
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Another Dawn
1932
Man Wanted
5.5/9
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
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Man Wanted
1941
The Feminine Touch
5.1/7
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Rus...
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The Feminine Touch
1942
Always in My Heart
6/4
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is...
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Always in My Heart
1931
Girls About Town
6.4/8
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
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Girls About Town
1930
Raffles
6/14
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a wom...
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Raffles
1944
Four Jills in a Jeep
5.7/3
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
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Four Jills in a Jeep
1946
Wife Wanted
6.5/1
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs...
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Wife Wanted
1933
I Loved a Woman
4.8/12
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in l...
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I Loved a Woman
1931
Transgression
4/4
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
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Transgression
1937
First Lady
6.2/6
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
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First Lady
1934
Dr. Monica
4.8/6
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
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Dr. Monica
1941
Play Girl
6.3/6
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
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Play Girl
1940
It's a Date
6.4/7
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situ...
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It's a Date
1940
When the Daltons Rode
6/20
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing the...
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When the Daltons Rode
1934
Wonder Bar
6.132/19
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and t...
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Wonder Bar
1934
British Agent
5.5/17
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.
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British Agent
1935
The Goose and the Gander
4.6/6
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot...
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The Goose and the Gander
1931
Scandal Sheet
0/0
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
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Scandal Sheet
1932
Street of Women
4.8/5
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to...
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Street of Women
1931
Guilty Hands
6/11
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
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Guilty Hands
1945
Divorce
5/2
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the...
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Divorce
1929
Dangerous Curves
6/3
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...
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Dangerous Curves
1929
The Marriage Playground
5.8/4
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their int...
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The Marriage Playground
1932
Strangers in Love
5.1/4
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
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Strangers in Love
1930
Let's Go Native
7.5/2
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.
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Let's Go Native
1938
Secrets of an Actress
5.6/5
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Secrets of an Actress
1932
Cynara
4.8/10
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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Cynara
1930
Street of Chance
6.6/8
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay Fra...
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Street of Chance
1930
A Notorious Affair
4.4/7
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
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A Notorious Affair
1930
The Virtuous Sin
4.9/5
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
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The Virtuous Sin
1935
Stranded
5.8/5
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Stranded
1939
Women in the Wind
6.8/4
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
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Women in the Wind
1936
Give Me Your Heart
6/6
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Give Me Your Heart
1937
Stolen Holiday
6.6/6
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Stolen Holiday
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1930
Passion Flower
5.6/9
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
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Passion Flower
1933
Mary Stevens, M.D.
6/11
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
The Keyhole
4.9/13
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
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The Keyhole
1930
Behind the Make-Up
6.2/4
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his appreciat...
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Behind the Make-Up
1935
Living on Velvet
5.5/6
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of...
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Living on Velvet
1930
For the Defense
4.8/10
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them o...
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For the Defense
1931
The Vice Squad
7/2
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
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The Vice Squad
1938
Women Are Like That
5.7/3
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her...
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Women Are Like That
1938
Comet Over Broadway
5/2
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Comet Over Broadway
1931
24 Hours
5.5/2
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
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24 Hours
1935
I Found Stella Parish
7/5
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
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I Found Stella Parish
1931
The False Madonna
6.3/3
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
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The False Madonna
1931
Ladies' Man
4.3/10
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society....
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Ladies' Man
1934
Mandalay
5.9/15
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay.
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Mandalay
1933
Storm at Daybreak
5.8/4
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza...
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Storm at Daybreak
1936
The White Angel
8/4
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable professio...
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The White Angel
1935
Movies on Sundays
0/0
A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such...
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Movies on Sundays
1929
Illusion
0/0
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his vaudev...
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Illusion
1938
My Bill
6.2/7
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
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My Bill
1940
Little Men
6.1/8
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's h...
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Little Men
2005
William Powell: A True Gentleman
7.5/2
A short documentary about William Powell.
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William Powell: A True Gentleman
1929
Gentlemen of the Press
5/1
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
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Gentlemen of the Press
1930
Paramount on Parade
6.1/8
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
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Paramount on Parade
1936
Breakdowns of 1936
0/0
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
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Breakdowns of 1936
1942
Between Us Girls
6/1
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter.
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Between Us Girls
2002
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
0/0
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.
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Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1947
Blow-Ups of 1947
6.3/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
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Blow-Ups of 1947
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself
4/2
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some...
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The Man Who Lost Himself
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Breakdowns of 1938
1937
Breakdowns of 1937
6/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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Breakdowns of 1937
1935
Things You Never See on the Screen
5/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
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Things You Never See on the Screen
1939
Breakdowns of 1939
7/1
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
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Breakdowns of 1939
1943
Show-Business at War
7/3
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
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Show-Business at War
1975
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
5.7/7
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2003
Complicated Women
6.7/11
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered fi...
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