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Katherine Edwina "Kay" Francis 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.
Birth Name
Katherine Edwina Gibbs
Born
Friday, 13 January 1905
Died
Monday, 26 August 1968
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Momo: The Sam Giancana Story | (archive footage) | 2013 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Self | 1997 |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self | 1983 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Carol Nelson (clip from King of the Underworld (1939)) | 1963 |
| The Prudential Family Playhouse | Dorothy Hilton | 1950 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Alice | 1950 |
| The Ken Murray Show | Self | 1950 |
| Blow Ups of 1947 | Herself | 1947 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Momo: The Sam Giancana Story | (archive footage) | 2013 |
| Complicated Women | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2003 |
| Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years | Self | 1997 |
| Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self | 1983 |
| Brother Can You Spare a Dime | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Carol Nelson (clip from King of the Underworld (1939)) | 1963 |
| The Prudential Family Playhouse | Dorothy Hilton | 1950 |
| Lux Video Theatre | Alice | 1950 |
| The Ken Murray Show | Self | 1950 |
| Blow Ups of 1947 | Herself | 1947 |
| Wife Wanted | Carole Raymond | 1946 |
| Allotment Wives | Sheila Seymour | 1945 |
| Divorce | Dianne Carter / Diane Carter | 1945 |
| Four Jills in a Jeep | Kay Francis | 1944 |
| Show-Business at War | Self | 1943 |
| Between Us Girls | Christine 'Chris' Bishop / Christine Bishop | 1942 |
| Always in My Heart | Marjorie Scott | 1942 |
| The Feminine Touch | Nellie Woods | 1941 |
| Charley's Aunt | Donna Lucia d'Alvadorez / Donna Lucia | 1941 |
| The Man Who Lost Himself | Adrienne Scott | 1941 |
| Play Girl | Grace Herbert | 1941 |
| Little Men | Jo / Josephine "Jo" Bhaer | 1940 |
| When the Daltons Rode | Julie King | 1940 |
| It's a Date | Georgia Drake | 1940 |
| In Name Only | Maida Walker | 1939 |
| Women in the Wind | Janet Steele | 1939 |
| King of the Underworld | Carole Nelson / Dr. Carole Nelson | 1939 |
| Breakdowns of 1938 | Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (First Lady / Women Are Like That outtakes) | 1938 |
| Comet Over Broadway | Eve Appleton | 1938 |
| Secrets of an Actress | Fay Carter | 1938 |
| My Bill | Mary Colbrook | 1938 |
| Women Are Like That | Claire Landin / Claire King Landin | 1938 |
| First Lady | Lucy Chase Wayne | 1937 |
| Confession | Vera Kowalska | 1937 |
| Another Dawn | Julia Ashton Wister | 1937 |
| Stolen Holiday | Nicole Picot | 1937 |
| Breakdowns of 1937 | Herself / Self | 1937 |
| Breakdowns of 1936 | Herself / Self | 1936 |
| Give Me Your Heart | Belinda Warren / Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill' | 1936 |
| The White Angel | Florence 'Flo' Nightingale / Florence Nightingale | 1936 |
| Things You Never See on the Screen | Self | 1935 |
| I Found Stella Parish | Stella Parish | 1935 |
| The Goose and the Gander | Georgiana / Georgiana Summers | 1935 |
| Stranded | Lynn Palmer | 1935 |
| Living on Velvet | Amy Prentiss | 1935 |
| Movies on Sundays | Self | 1935 |
| British Agent | Elena Moura | 1934 |
| Dr. Monica | Dr. Monica Brayden / Dr. Monica Braden | 1934 |
| Wonder Bar | Liane Renaud | 1934 |
| Mandalay | Tanya Borodoff / Spot White / Marjorie Lang / Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White | 1934 |
| The House on 56th Street | Peggy Martin / Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone | 1933 |
| I Loved a Woman | Laura McDonald | 1933 |
| Mary Stevens, M.D. | Mary Stevens | 1933 |
| Storm at Daybreak | Irina Radovic | 1933 |
| The Keyhole | Anne Vallee Brooks | 1933 |
| Cynara | Clemency Warlock | 1932 |
| Trouble in Paradise | Mariette Colet | 1932 |
| One Way Passage | Joan Ames | 1932 |
| Jewel Robbery | Baroness Teri / Baroness Teri Hohenfels | 1932 |
| Street of Women | Natalie 'Nat' Upton | 1932 |
| Man Wanted | Lois Ames | 1932 |
| Strangers in Love | Diana Merrow | 1932 |
| The False Madonna | Tina | 1931 |
| Girls About Town | Wanda Howard | 1931 |
| 24 Hours | Fanny Towner | 1931 |
| Guilty Hands | Marjorie West | 1931 |
| Transgression | Elsie Maury | 1931 |
| The Vice Squad | Alice Morrison | 1931 |
| Ladies' Man | Norma Page | 1931 |
| Scandal Sheet | Edith Flint | 1931 |
| Passion Flower | Dulce Morado | 1930 |
| The Virtuous Sin | Marya Ivanova Sablin | 1930 |
| Let's Go Native | Constance Cook | 1930 |
| For the Defense | Irene Manners | 1930 |
| Raffles | Gwen | 1930 |
| A Notorious Affair | Countess Olga Balakireff | 1930 |
| Paramount on Parade | Carmen / Carmen - Epsiode 'The Toreador' | 1930 |
| Street of Chance | Alma Marsden | 1930 |
| Behind the Make-Up | Kitty Parker | 1930 |
| The Marriage Playground | Lady Wrench | 1929 |
| Illusion | Zelda Paxton | 1929 |
| Dangerous Curves | Zara Flynn | 1929 |
| The Cocoanuts | Penelope / Penelope Martin | 1929 |
| Gentlemen of the Press | Myra May | 1929 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Wife Wanted | 1946 |
| Allotment Wives | 1945 |
| Divorce | 1945 |
