Kay Francis
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1905-01-13
Locus Natus: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Et ut: Katherine Edwina Gibbs, Katherine Francis
Trouble in Paradise
Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide...
release : 1932.10.30popularis : 9.325
The Cocoanuts
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
release : 1929.05.23popularis : 6.941
In Name Only
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.
release : 1939.08.18popularis : 4.641
King of the Underworld
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her...
release : 1939.01.14popularis : 3.337
One Way Passage
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...
release : 1932.10.04popularis : 5.308
Allotment Wives
Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.
release : 1945.11.08popularis : 2.666
Charley's Aunt
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.
release : 1941.08.01popularis : 2.026
Jewel Robbery
A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.
release : 1932.07.08popularis : 7.063
The House on 56th Street
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...
release : 1933.12.23popularis : 3.756
Confession
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...
release : 1937.08.19popularis : 3.032
Another Dawn
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...
release : 1937.06.26popularis : 3.189
Man Wanted
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
release : 1932.04.23popularis : 2.071
The Feminine Touch
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...
release : 1941.10.01popularis : 3.055
Always in My Heart
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...
release : 1942.03.14popularis : 1.775
Girls About Town
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.
release : 1931.11.07popularis : 2.83
Raffles
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a...
release : 1930.07.11popularis : 1.785
Four Jills in a Jeep
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
release : 1944.03.17popularis : 2.674
Wife Wanted
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell...
release : 1946.11.02popularis : 2.094
I Loved a Woman
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...
release : 1933.09.23popularis : 3.814
Transgression
When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.
release : 1931.06.27popularis : 2.678
First Lady
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
release : 1937.12.04popularis : 3.227
Dr. Monica
A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.
release : 1934.06.23popularis : 3.819
Play Girl
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.
release : 1941.01.29popularis : 1.848
It's a Date
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...
release : 1940.03.22popularis : 5.019
When the Daltons Rode
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...
release : 1940.08.23popularis : 6.295
Wonder Bar
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...
release : 1934.03.31popularis : 3.189
British Agent
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.
release : 1934.09.15popularis : 3.157
The Goose and the Gander
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...
release : 1935.09.21popularis : 11.869
Scandal Sheet
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
release : 1931.01.31popularis : 1.623
Street of Women
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...
release : 1932.06.04popularis : 5.869
Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.
release : 1931.08.22popularis : 5.725
Divorce
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...
release : 1945.08.18popularis : 3.636
Dangerous Curves
A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a...
release : 1929.07.12popularis : 1.368
The Marriage Playground
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...
release : 1929.12.12popularis : 3.935
Strangers in Love
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
release : 1932.03.05popularis : 4.282
Let's Go Native
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.
release : 1930.08.15popularis : 1.668
Secrets of an Actress
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
release : 1938.09.10popularis : 3.708
Cynara
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.
release : 1932.12.24popularis : 4.569
Street of Chance
'Natural' Davis (William Powell) is a respected gambler who follows a ruthless code of honor with those who cheat against him. His wife, Alma (Kay...
release : 1930.02.08popularis : 2.358
A Notorious Affair
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
release : 1930.04.26popularis : 4.311
The Virtuous Sin
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
release : 1930.10.24popularis : 2.269
Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
release : 1935.06.29popularis : 2.643
Women in the Wind
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
release : 1939.04.15popularis : 5.907
Give Me Your Heart
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
release : 1936.09.17popularis : 5.788
Stolen Holiday
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
release : 1937.02.06popularis : 1.586
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...
release : 1983.02.25popularis : 8.78
Passion Flower
A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.
release : 1930.12.06popularis : 3.163
Mary Stevens, M.D.
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.
release : 1933.07.22popularis : 2.869
The Keyhole
A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.
release : 1933.03.25popularis : 3.787
Behind the Make-Up
Gardoni, a down-on-his-luck vaudeville performer, is taken in by a fellow performer, a clown who has a bicycle riding act. Gardoni shows his...
release : 1930.01.18popularis : 1.283
Living on Velvet
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...
release : 1935.03.02popularis : 1.58
For the Defense
William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them...
release : 1930.07.19popularis : 2.031
The Vice Squad
A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
release : 1931.05.29popularis : 1.917
Women Are Like That
Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use...
release : 1938.04.23popularis : 3.382
Comet Over Broadway
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
release : 1938.12.03popularis : 3.011
24 Hours
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
release : 1931.10.03popularis : 1.032
I Found Stella Parish
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
release : 1935.11.16popularis : 1.243
The False Madonna
A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.
release : 1931.12.05popularis : 0.679
Ladies' Man
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...
release : 1931.04.16popularis : 1.824
Mandalay
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.
release : 1934.02.10popularis : 4.813
Storm at Daybreak
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...
release : 1933.06.14popularis : 1.835
The White Angel
In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness....
release : 1936.06.25popularis : 2.21
Movies on Sundays
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...
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 1.248
Illusion
A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his...
release : 1929.09.21popularis : 0.619
My Bill
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.
release : 1938.07.08popularis : 2.438
Little Men
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...
release : 1940.11.29popularis : 1.783
William Powell: A True Gentleman
A short documentary about William Powell.
release : 2005.08.02popularis : 1.064
Gentlemen of the Press
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.
release : 1929.05.04popularis : 2.187
Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors
release : 1930.04.22popularis : 2.733
Breakdowns of 1936
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.
release : 1936.12.30popularis : 2.223
Between Us Girls
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.
release : 1942.09.04popularis : 3.478
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.
release : 2002.03.05popularis : 2.408
Blow-Ups of 1947
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
release : 1947.12.31popularis : 1.418
The Man Who Lost Himself
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do...
release : 1941.03.21popularis : 3.67
Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
release : 1938.12.31popularis : 1.63
Breakdowns of 1937
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 2.16
Breakdowns of 1939
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.
release : 1939.12.31popularis : 1.027
Things You Never See on the Screen
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.
release : 1935.12.01popularis : 2.137
Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.
release : 1943.05.21popularis : 3.847
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
release : 1975.08.06popularis : 6.197
Complicated Women
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...
release : 2003.05.06popularis : 3.674