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'.
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'.
“I’m not a star, I’m a woman, and I want to get fucked!” A combination clotheshorse/workhorse, Kay Francis made 67 films from 1929 to 1946. Her life and career are a splurging record of indulgent consumption and extravagant dissipation.
Scandal Sheet is a 1931 American crime film directed by John Cromwell and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin. The film stars George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey, Lucien Littlefield, Gilbert Emery and Harry Beresford.
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.
Kay Francis emerged as the Epitome of Glamour during the peak of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Her onscreen romances with William Powell, Ian Hunter, and George Brent were watched by millions, and she reigned as the highest paid employee on the Warner Bros. lot for three years (PL).
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.
Dec 8, 2021 · Kay Francis, TCM Star of the Month for January, was a smart, glamorous leading lady who exerted tremendous influence over moviegoers during her heyday in the 1930s. Women copied her fashions, hairstyles, jewelry and makeup, while the male audience responded to her feminine charms.
