Kay Francis

Born: 1905-01-13

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.


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Trouble in Paradise

as Mariette Colet
Released: 1932-10-30

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume...

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The Cocoanuts

as Penelope
Released: 1929-05-23

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a...

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Guilty Hands

as Marjorie West
Released: 1931-08-22

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé...

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Jewel Robbery

as Baroness Teri Hohenfels
Released: 1932-07-08

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of...

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One Way Passage

as Joan Ames
Released: 1932-10-04

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a...

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In Name Only

as Maida Walker
Released: 1939-08-18

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-02-25

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas,...

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Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2003-05-06

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound...

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Allotment Wives

as Sheila Seymour
Released: 1945-11-08

Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

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Ladies' Man

as Norma Page
Released: 1931-04-16

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness...

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Women Are Like That

as Claire King Landin
Released: 1938-04-23

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire...

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Scandal Sheet

as Edith Flint
Released: 1931-01-31

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story...

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Passion Flower

as Dulce Morado
Released: 1930-12-06

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born...

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Play Girl

as Grace Herbert
Released: 1941-01-29

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all...

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It's a Date

as Georgia Drake
Released: 1940-03-22

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a...

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Wonder Bar

as Liane Renaud
Released: 1934-03-31

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with...

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British Agent

as Elena Moura
Released: 1934-09-15

An Englishman falls in love with a Russian spy.

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Dr. Monica

as Dr. Monica Braden
Released: 1934-06-23

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has...

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First Lady

as Lucy Chase Wayne
Released: 1937-12-04

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

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Raffles

as Gwen
Released: 1930-07-11

A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press...

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The Keyhole

as Anne Vallee Brooks
Released: 1933-03-25

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

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Divorce

as Diane Carter
Released: 1945-08-18

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she...

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Paramount on Parade

as Carmen
Released: 1930-04-22

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars,...

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Man Wanted

as Lois Ames
Released: 1932-04-23

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

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Illusion

as Zelda Paxton
Released: 1929-09-21

A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated...

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Stolen Holiday

as Nicole Picot
Released: 1937-02-06

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells...

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When the Daltons Rode

as Julie King
Released: 1940-08-23

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the...

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24 Hours

as Fanny Towner
Released: 1931-10-03

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her...

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King of the Underworld

as Dr. Carole Nelson
Released: 1939-01-14

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove...

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Women in the Wind

as Janet Steele
Released: 1939-04-15

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

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Girls About Town

as Wanda Howard
Released: 1931-11-07

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1975-08-06

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American...

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Dangerous Curves

as Zara Flynn
Released: 1929-07-12

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he...

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Little Men

as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer
Released: 1940-11-29

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a...

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Between Us Girls

as Christine Bishop
Released: 1942-09-04

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own...

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Behind the Make-Up

as Kitty Parker
Released: 1930-01-18

Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who...

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Mandalay

as Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang
Released: 1934-02-10

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to...

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Let's Go Native

as Constance Cook
Released: 1930-08-15

The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from...

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Show-Business at War

as Self
Released: 1943-05-21

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

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Stranded

as Lynn Palmer
Released: 1935-06-29

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

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Things You Never See on the Screen

as Self
Released: 1935-12-01

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

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Breakdowns of 1938

as Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1938-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

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Cynara

as Clemency Warlock
Released: 1932-12-24

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to...

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I Loved a Woman

as Laura McDonald
Released: 1933-09-23

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and...

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Breakdowns of 1937

as Self
Released: 1937-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

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The White Angel

as Florence Nightingale
Released: 1936-06-25

In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of...

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The Goose and the Gander

as Georgiana Summers
Released: 1935-09-21

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a...

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Storm at Daybreak

as Irina Radovic
Released: 1933-06-14

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the...

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Transgression

as Elsie Maury
Released: 1931-06-27

When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his...

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Comet Over Broadway

as Eve Appleton
Released: 1938-12-03

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

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I Found Stella Parish

as Stella Parish
Released: 1935-11-16

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

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Always in My Heart

as Marjorie Scott
Released: 1942-03-14

A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers...

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The Feminine Touch

as Nellie Woods
Released: 1941-10-01

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway...

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Blow-Ups of 1947

as Self
Released: 1947-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

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Wife Wanted

as Carole Raymond
Released: 1946-11-02

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell....

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Another Dawn

as Julia Ashton Wister
Released: 1937-06-26

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to...

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Give Me Your Heart

as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
Released: 1936-09-17

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

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The House on 56th Street

as Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone
Released: 1933-12-23

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits...

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Charley's Aunt

as Donna Lucia
Released: 1941-08-01

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an...

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Confession

as Vera Kowalska
Released: 1937-08-19

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is...

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Mary Stevens, M.D.

as Mary Stevens
Released: 1933-07-22

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.

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The Vice Squad

as Alice Morrison
Released: 1931-05-29

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

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Four Jills in a Jeep

as Kay Francis
Released: 1944-03-17

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

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For the Defense

as Irene Manners
Released: 1930-07-19

William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing...

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Strangers in Love

as Diana Merrow
Released: 1932-03-05

Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother...

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The Man Who Lost Himself

as Adrienne Scott
Released: 1941-03-21

John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans...

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Living on Velvet

as Amy Prentiss
Released: 1935-03-02

A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of...

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My Bill

as Mary Colbrook
Released: 1938-07-08

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

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Breakdowns of 1936

as Self
Released: 1936-12-30

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

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The Marriage Playground

as Lady Wrench
Released: 1929-12-12

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several...

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Street of Chance

as Alma Marsden
Released: 1930-02-08

'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor...

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Breakdowns of 1939

as Self
Released: 1939-12-31

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

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A Notorious Affair

as Countess Olga Balakireff
Released: 1930-04-26

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

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Street of Women

as Natalie 'Nat' Upton
Released: 1932-06-04

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the...

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The Virtuous Sin

as Marya Ivanova Sablin
Released: 1930-10-24

Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

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The False Madonna

as Tina
Released: 1931-12-05

A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.

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Secrets of an Actress

as Fay Carter
Released: 1938-09-10

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

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Gentlemen of the Press

as Myra May
Released: 1929-05-04

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters...

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William Powell: A True Gentleman

as uncredited
Released: 2005-08-02

A short documentary about William Powell.

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Lux Video Theatre

as Alice
First aired: 1950-10-02

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The...

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