Kay Francis
Birthday: 1905-01-13
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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.
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Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company...
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The Cocoanuts
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewe...
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In Name Only
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrive...
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King of the Underworld
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her i...
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One Way Passage
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pac...
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Charley's Aunt
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt fr...
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Jewel Robbery
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a je...
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The House on 56th Street
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a d...
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Confession
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal...
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Another Dawn
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England...
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The Feminine Touch
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Do...
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Always in My Heart
A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his...
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Girls About Town
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhatt...
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Raffles
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has d...
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Four Jills in a Jeep
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas....
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Wife Wanted
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actuall...
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I Loved a Woman
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as...
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Transgression
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife El...
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First Lady
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President....
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Dr. Monica
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregna...
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Play Girl
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her ...
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It's a Date
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more s...
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When the Daltons Rode
Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Dalto...
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Wonder Bar
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, t...
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British Agent
In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Pete...
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The Goose and the Gander
When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romanti...
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Scandal Sheet
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story abou...
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Street of Women
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect'...
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Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and th...
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Divorce
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she pro...
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Dangerous Curves
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he dri...
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The Marriage Playground
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorce...
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Strangers in Love
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when ...
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Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Bro...
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Cynara
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have hi...
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Street of Chance
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with th...
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The Virtuous Sin
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed....
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Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters....
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Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women....
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Give Me Your Heart
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman....
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Stolen Holiday
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Passion Flower
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffe...
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Mary Stevens, M.D.
Lifelong friends and medical school graduates Mary Stevens and Don Andrews decide to set up office t...
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The Keyhole
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame....
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Behind the Make-Up
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has...
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Living on Velvet
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege t...
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For the Defense
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks ...
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The Vice Squad
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes....
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Women Are Like That
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries h...
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Comet Over Broadway
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition....
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24 Hours
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her love...
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I Found Stella Parish
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past....
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The False Madonna
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man....
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Ladies' Man
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with hi...
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Mandalay
Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put...
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Storm at Daybreak
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of...
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The White Angel
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs...
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Movies on Sundays
A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Su...
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Illusion
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated wit...
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Little Men
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tou...
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William Powell: A True Gentleman
A biography on the life of William Powell narrated by Michael York....
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Gentlemen of the Press
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his...
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Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...
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Breakdowns of 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936....
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Between Us Girls
A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mothe...
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Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's....
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Blow-Ups of 1947
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947....
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The Man Who Lost Himself
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds...
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Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938....
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Breakdowns of 1937
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937....
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Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....
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Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935....
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Complicated Women
Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, u...
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