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Kay Francis

Kay Francis

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.

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William Powell: A True Gentleman (2005)

A short documentary about William Powell. ...

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Complicated Women (2003)

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimens ...

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Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults (1999)

Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's. ...

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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50 ...

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression. ...

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Blow-Ups of 1947 (1947)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947. ...

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Wife Wanted (1946)

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large gr ...

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Allotment Wives (1945)

Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay. ...

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Divorce (1945)

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend. ...

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Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas. ...

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Show-Business at War (1943)

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort. ...

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Between Us Girls (1942)

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter. ...

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Always in My Heart (1942)

A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife is in love with another man. ...

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The Feminine Touch (1941)

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind Russell), to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan ...

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Charley's Aunt (1941)

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from. ...

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The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)

John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role. ...

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Play Girl (1941)

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks. ...

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Little Men (1940)

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Bur ...

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When the Daltons Rode (1940)

Young lawyer Tod Jackson arrives in pioneer Kansas to visit his prosperous rancher friends the Daltons, just as the latter are in danger of losing their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Dal ...

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It's a Date (1940)

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man. ...

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Breakdowns of 1939 (1939)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939. ...

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In Name Only (1939)

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife. ...

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Women in the Wind (1939)

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women. ...

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King of the Underworld (1939)

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she ...

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Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938. ...

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Comet Over Broadway (1938)

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition. ...

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Secrets of an Actress (1938)

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress. ...

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My Bill (1938)

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children. ...

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Women Are Like That (1938)

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it. ...

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Breakdowns of 1937 (1937)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937. ...

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First Lady (1937)

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President. ...

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Confession (1937)

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life. ...

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Another Dawn (1937)

Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; som ...

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Stolen Holiday (1937)

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds. ...

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Breakdowns of 1936 (1936)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936. ...

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Give Me Your Heart (1936)

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman. ...

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The White Angel (1936)

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession. ...

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Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935. ...

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I Found Stella Parish (1935)

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past. ...

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The Goose and the Gander (1935)

When Georgiana Summers learns that the woman who stole and married her husband is planning a romantic tryst with a new love, she hatches a giddy plot to expose the rendezvous and pay her back. ...

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Stranded (1935)

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters. ...

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Living on Velvet (1935)

A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light. ...

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Movies on Sundays (1935)

A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow such screenings. ...

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British Agent (1934)

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy. ...

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Dr. Monica (1934)

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend. ...

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Wonder Bar (1934)

Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and i ...

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Mandalay (1934)

Abandoned by her lover, a woman becomes the main "hostess" in a decadent nightclub, but tries to put her past behind her on a steamer to Mandalay. ...

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The House on 56th Street (1933)

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide. ...

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I Loved a Woman (1933)

The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love. ...

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Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage. ...

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Storm at Daybreak (1933)

Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife. ...

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The Keyhole (1933)

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame. ...

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Cynara (1932)

A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback. ...

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Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his ...

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One Way Passage (1932)

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret. ...

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Jewel Robbery (1932)

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop. ...

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Street of Women (1932)

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to misunderstanding and dissolution, but ultimately love. ...

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Man Wanted (1932)

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary. ...

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Strangers in Love (1932)

Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies. ...

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The False Madonna (1931)

A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man. ...

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Girls About Town (1931)

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan. ...

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24 Hours (1931)

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime. ...

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Guilty Hands (1931)

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover. ...

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Transgression (1931)

When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy. ...

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The Vice Squad (1931)

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes. ...

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Ladies' Man (1931)

A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society. ...

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Scandal Sheet (1931)

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife. ...

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Movies Made By Kay Francis (2)

Allotment Wives (1945)

Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay. ...

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Divorce (1945)

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend. ...

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