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Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; 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 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'.
Dec 13, 2014 · As biographers Lynn Kear and John Rossman pointed out in their Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career, Kay’s world was in art deco surroundings while gowned in a breath-taking Orry-Kelly creation. To think of her in the turbulent 1960’s is almost impossible. Kay Francis died on April 26, 1968 in her New York apartment.
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'. By 1935, she earned a yearly salary of $115,000 (compared to Bette Davis with $18,000). The daughter of actress Katherine Clinton and businessman ...
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.
Gorgeous Kay Francis is truly one of the shining gems of the pre-Code era. Able to project both a sense of lavish sophistication as well as an impish side, she flourished in the permissibility and for a short time became one of the most famous and highest paid actresses in the world.Born in Oklahoma City in 1905, Kay traveled around the world ...
This is the story of Kay Francis. Katharine Edwina Gibbs was born in Oklahoma City on Friday, January 13, 1905. Faced with bitterly cold temperatures, that week’s edition of the Daily Oakie had reported that one citizen had frozen to death that Wednesday (PL). On the day Katharine was born, the local forecast was zero with a high of 14 (PL).
