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Kay Francis completed 68 films beginning her debut in 1929’s Gentlemen of the Press, and ending with 1946’s Wife Wanted, which turned out to be her final film. Click on the title of a film in the table below to go to that film’s page where you can find my reviews, vintage reviews, photos from the film, and images from advertising ...
14. Jan. 2020 · The ideal Kay Francis marathon would include three of her films from 1932, starting with One Way Passage, a perfect melodrama of the period. Francis plays Joan Ames, a socialite who’s dying of an unnamed disease, while Powell is a murderer who’s been caught and is being returned to San Francisco for his execution. The two meet aboard the ...
[Links to websites I like appear at the bottom of this page!] “[As Kay Francis told me] that her Hollywood career was long behind her, that she still had unpleasant memories of leaving Warner Bros. in the late 1930’s, and that she was puzzled about why a person of my young years could possibly be interested in her past professional accomplishments,” James Robert Parish, The Complete Kay ...
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. Some of her film related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the ...
25. Jan. 2006 · Kay Francis came of age in the Roaring Twenties and relished the era's hedonistic pursuits. Her career as an actress was launched at the same time, and before her death in 1968, she had appeared on many theater stages, in more than 60 films, on radio, in USO tours, as a model, and on television.
9. Apr. 2019 · Kay Francis revisited: One of the brightest & most underrated Hollywood stars of the 1930s. Kay Francis is the star of the day (April 9) on Turner Classic Movies, which is presenting 10 of her films. One of the biggest Hollywood names of the decade, Kay Francis is only rarely mentioned today. There’s no Kay Francis appreciation society or ...
One of these Kay converts was Lynn Kear who, along with John Rossman, has written the first biography of this dark lady of the early talkies, Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career.1 George Cukor said that the great stars had a secret, and Francis’ face always seemed to carry a particularly wicked one. Kear and Rossman reveal Kay’s ...
