Birthday
1905/01/13
Day of death
1968/08/26 (63 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Also know as
Katherine Edwina Gibbs, Katherine Francis
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 ...Read more
(1932) Trouble in Paradise
as Mariette Colet
(1929) The Cocoanuts
as Penelope
(1939) In Name Only
as Maida Walker
(1939) King of the Underworld
as Dr. Carole Nelson
(1932) One Way Passage
as Joan Ames
(1945) Allotment Wives
as Sheila Seymour
(1941) Charley's Aunt
as Donna Lucia
(1932) Jewel Robbery
as Baroness Teri Hohenfels
(1933) The House on 56th Street
as Peggy Martin Van Tyle / Peggy Stone
(1937) Confession
as Vera Kowalska
(1937) Another Dawn
as Julia Ashton Wister
(1932) Man Wanted
as Lois Ames
(1941) The Feminine Touch
as Nellie Woods
(1942) Always in My Heart
as Marjorie Scott
(1931) Girls About Town
as Wanda Howard
(1930) Raffles
as Gwen
(1944) Four Jills in a Jeep
as Kay Francis
(1946) Wife Wanted
as Carole Raymond
(1933) I Loved a Woman
as Laura McDonald
(1931) Transgression
as Elsie Maury
(1937) First Lady
as Lucy Chase Wayne
(1934) Dr. Monica
as Dr. Monica Braden
(1941) Play Girl
as Grace Herbert
(1940) It's a Date
as Georgia Drake
(1940) When the Daltons Rode
as Julie King
(1934) Wonder Bar
as Liane Renaud
(1934) British Agent
as Elena Moura
(1935) The Goose and the Gander
as Georgiana Summers
(1931) Scandal Sheet
as Edith Flint
(1932) Street of Women
as Natalie 'Nat' Upton
(1931) Guilty Hands
as Marjorie West
(1945) Divorce
as Diane Carter
(1929) Dangerous Curves
as Zara Flynn
(1929) The Marriage Playground
as Lady Wrench
(1932) Strangers in Love
as Diana Merrow
(1930) Let's Go Native
as Constance Cook
(1938) Secrets of an Actress
as Fay Carter
(1932) Cynara
as Clemency Warlock
(1930) Street of Chance
as Alma Marsden
(1930) A Notorious Affair
as Countess Olga Balakireff
(1930) The Virtuous Sin
as Marya Ivanova Sablin
(1935) Stranded
as Lynn Palmer
(1939) Women in the Wind
as Janet Steele
(1936) Give Me Your Heart
as Belinda 'Linda' Warren, aka 'Bill'
(1937) Stolen Holiday
as Nicole Picot
(1983) Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1930) Passion Flower
as Dulce Morado
(1933) Mary Stevens, M.D.
as Mary Stevens
(1933) The Keyhole
as Anne Vallee Brooks
(1930) Behind the Make-Up
as Kitty Parker
(1935) Living on Velvet
as Amy Prentiss
(1930) For the Defense
as Irene Manners
(1931) The Vice Squad
as Alice Morrison
(1938) Women Are Like That
as Claire King Landin
(1938) Comet Over Broadway
as Eve Appleton
(1931) 24 Hours
as Fanny Towner
(1935) I Found Stella Parish
as Stella Parish
(1931) The False Madonna
as Tina
(1931) Ladies' Man
as Norma Page
(1934) Mandalay
as Tanya Borodoff aka Spot White / Marjorie Lang
(1933) Storm at Daybreak
as Irina Radovic
(1936) The White Angel
as Florence Nightingale
(1935) Movies on Sundays
as Herself (uncredited)
(1929) Illusion
as Zelda Paxton
(1938) My Bill
as Mary Colbrook
(1940) Little Men
as Josephine "Jo" Bhaer
(2005) William Powell: A True Gentleman
as ---
(1929) Gentlemen of the Press
as Myra May
(1930) Paramount on Parade
as Carmen
(1936) Breakdowns of 1936
as Self
(1942) Between Us Girls
as Christine 'Chris' Bishop
(2002) Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as Self (archiveFootage)
(1947) Blow-Ups of 1947
as Self
(1941) The Man Who Lost Himself
as Adrienne Scott
(1938) Breakdowns of 1938
as Lady Chase-Wayne / Claire Landin (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1937) Breakdowns of 1937
as Self
(1939) Breakdowns of 1939
as Self
(1935) Things You Never See on the Screen
as Self
(1943) Show-Business at War
as Self
(1975) Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
(2003) Complicated Women
as Self (archive footage)
(1950) Lux Video Theatre
as Alice
(1950) Prudential Family Playhouse
as ---