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Home/People/Kay Francis
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Born
Jan 13, 1905Died: Aug 26, 1968
Lived 63 years
Place of Birth
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female

Career Highlights

81
Movies
2
TV Shows
Also Known As
Katherine Edwina Gibbs
Katherine Francis
IMDb Profile

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.
William Powell: A True Gentleman poster

William Powell: A True Gentleman

Cast
2005
Complicated Women poster

Complicated Women

as Self (archive footage)
2003
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults poster

Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults

as (archive footage)
1999
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage poster

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? poster

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)
1975
Blow-Ups of 1947 poster

Blow-Ups of 1947

as Self
1947
Wife Wanted poster

Wife Wanted

as Carole Raymond
1946
Allotment Wives poster

Allotment Wives

as Sheila Seymour
1945
Divorce poster

Divorce

as Diane Carter
1945
Four Jills in a Jeep poster

Four Jills in a Jeep

as Kay Francis
1944
Show-Business at War poster

Show-Business at War

as Self
1943
Between Us Girls poster

Between Us Girls

as Christine 'Chris' Bishop
1942
Always in My Heart poster

Always in My Heart

as Marjorie Scott
1942
The Feminine Touch poster

The Feminine Touch

as Nellie Woods
1941
Charley's Aunt poster

Charley's Aunt

as Donna Lucia
1941
The Man Who Lost Himself poster

The Man Who Lost Himself

as Adrienne Scott
1941
Play Girl poster

Play Girl

as Grace Herbert
1941
Little Men poster

Little Men

as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer
1940
When the Daltons Rode poster

When the Daltons Rode

as Julie King
1940
It's a Date poster

It's a Date

as Georgia Drake
1940