Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

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.

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Acting

2005

William Powell: A True Gentleman

2003

Complicated Women as Self (archive footage)

1999

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults as Self (archiveFootage)

1983

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

1975

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

1950		Prudential Family Playhouse
1950		Lux Video Theatre as Alice

1947

Blow-Ups of 1947 as Self

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

1943

Show-Business at War as Self

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		Breakdowns of 1939 as Self
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		Breakdowns of 1937 as Self
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		Breakdowns of 1936 as Self
1936		Give Me Your Heart as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
1936		The White Angel as Florence Nightingale

1935		Things You Never See on the Screen as Self
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		The False Madonna as Tina
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		Paramount on Parade as Carmen
1930		Street of Chance as Alma Marsden
1930		Behind the Make-Up as Kitty Parker

1929		The Marriage Playground as Lady Wrench
1929		Illusion as Zelda Paxton
1929		Dangerous Curves as Zara Flynn
1929		The Cocoanuts as Penelope
1929		Gentlemen of the Press as Myra May

Production

1945		Allotment Wives as Producer
1945		Divorce as Producer