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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Kay Francis 1930s movie star (January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star (January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star
From 1930 to 1936 Kay Francis was the most popular actress at the Warner Brothers studio and the highest-paid American film actress. For comparison: the stars of MGM at the time were Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, on Studio Columbia Pictures – Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and the Paramount-Marlene Dietrich. However, Kay was more popular than any of them. Kay Francis was born on January 13, 1905. 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.

1930 publicity photo for the movie 'Behind the Make-Up'

1930 publicity photo for the movie ‘Behind the Make-Up’

At age 17, Kay became engaged to James Dwight Francis. Their December 1922 marriage at New York’s Saint Thomas Church ended in divorce in 1924. Her second husband was William Gaston, a former Harvard athlete and member of the Boston Bar Association, Bill Gaston. She had married writer-director John Meehan in New York, but soon after her arrival in Hollywood, she consummated an affair with actor and producer Kenneth MacKenna, whom she married in January 1931. When MacKenna’s Hollywood career foundered, he found himself spending more time in New York, and they divorced in 1934. Baron Raven Erik Barnekow married Kay Francis in 1939. The year of divorce is unknown. Francis married five times. Her diaries paint a picture of a woman whose personal life was often in disarray.

Allotment Wives (1945)

Allotment Wives (1945)

In 1966, Francis was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having no living immediate family members, Francis left more than $1,000,000 to Seeing Eye, Inc., which trained guide dogs for the blind. She died in the summer of 1968 and her body was immediately cremated; her ashes were scattered.

Kay Francis 1930's movie star

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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Highest-paid American film actress of the time Kay Francis

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

1930’s movie star Kay Francis

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

In 1930-1936 she was the most popular actress at the Warner Brothers studio

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Hollywood highest paid actress of the time Kay Francis

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Little Men (1940)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Mandalay (1934)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Storm at Daybreak (1933)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

1933 Film Storm at Daybreak (poster)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Scene from the movie “Storm at Daybreak” (1933)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Jewellery lover Kay Francis

Bright star of 1930s cinema Kay Francis

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Profile photo, Kay Francis

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

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Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Divorce (1945), movie poster

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

1945 film “Divorce”

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

The Feminine Touch (1941)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

1941 film “The Feminine Touch”

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

For the Defense (1930)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

In Name Only (1939)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

1939 film “In Name Only”

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Jewel Robbery (1932)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

The Trouble in Paradise 1932

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Street of Women (1932)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

The White Angel (1936)

Kay Francis 1930s movie star

Wonder Bar (1934)

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