Trouble in Paradise
1932
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Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. [1] 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 and highest-paid actress at Warner Bros. studio. [ 2 ]
Kay Francis. Actress: Mandalay. Kay Francis is possibly the biggest of the 'forgotten stars' from Hollywood's Golden Era. Yet, for a while in the 1930s she ranked as one of America's most popular actresses, tagged the 'Queen of Warner Brothers'.
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Kay Francis. Actress: Mandalay. Kay Francis is possibly the biggest of the 'forgotten stars' from Hollywood's Golden Era. Yet, for a while in the 1930s she ranked as one of America's most popular actresses, tagged the 'Queen of Warner Brothers'.
- January 13, 1905
- August 26, 1968
Dec 13, 2014 · Kay Francis died on April 26, 1968 in her New York apartment. Her seven page will left bequests to twelve people, while the majority of her nearly two-million dollar estate was left to The Seeing Eye of Morristown, New Jersey. Legacy… After her death, Kay’s legacy became virtually forgotten.
Kay Francis, one of the foremost motion picture actresses of the 1930s, died yesterday of cancer in her apartment on East 64th Street. She was 63 years old. Miss Francis had returned to her home on Saturday after having been a patient at New York Hospital.
Nov 13, 2017 · Kay Francis, by some alchemical force of self generated magic, was impossible to ignore when she appeared on screen. She was more striking than she was beautiful — she had these funnily long, downturned eyebrows that always made her look a little weary, a long and lithe body with a cherubic face, and eyes impossibly round like porcelain saucers.
Who IS Kay Francis? Kay Francis was born on January 13, 1905. She was raised by a single mother, Katherine Clinton, a largely unmemorable stage actress. Francis herself got into theater in the 1920s, moving to Hollywood at the end of the decade.
