Movies by Actor - Kay Francis (69 [Missing: 1]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Coconuts, TheDuring the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves. | 1929 | Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 7.0 (7.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Dangerous CurvesA 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 "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him. | 1929 | Lothar Mendes | Drama | 5.8 (142 votes) | 75 | 20220723 |
Gentlemen of the PressA driven newspaperman misses out on the joys and sorrows of ordinary life. | 1929 | Millard Webb | Drama | 6.7 (89 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
IllusionNA | 1929 | | Drama,Music,Romance | | | Not Available |
Marriage Playground, TheA husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced. The kids don't want to be separated and the oldest daughter and her boyfriend try to keep them together. | 1929 | Lothar Mendes | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.0 (112 votes) | 70 | 20240201 |
Behind the Make-UpGardoni, 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 appreciation by stealing the clown's act and his girlfriend, whom he marries. | 1930 | Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner, Henry Hathaway, Rollo Lloyd | Drama | 5.9 (134 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
For The DefenseWilliam Powell plays William Foster, a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them out of jail, winning acquittals, and having decisions reversed, t | 1930 | John Cromwell | Crime,Drama,Romance | 6.4 (417 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Let's Go NativeDress designer Joan Wood, who's heavily in debt, has created costumes for a Broadway show that is exported to Argentina. With the money she wants to pay her debts, but there was a mistake: she is receiving the money in Buenos Aires, | 1930 | Leo McCarey | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 5.8 (142 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Notorious Affair, AA scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money. | 1930 | Lloyd Bacon | Drama,Romance | 5.4 (285 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Passion FlowerA bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur. | 1930 | William C. de Mille | Drama | 6.1 (339 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
RafflesA distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a woman and falls in love he decides to "retire" from that life, but an old friend comes | 1930 | George Fitzmaurice, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Adventure,Crime,Drama | 6.5 (921 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Street of ChanceA big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling. | 1930 | John Cromwell | Crime,Drama,Romance | 6.6 (262 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Virtuous Sin, TheMarya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin, who finds it impossible to deal with military life when he is inducted into the Russian army during World War I. | 1930 | George Cukor, Louis J. Gasnier | Drama,Romance,War | 5.6 (160 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
24 HoursA nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime. | 1931 | Marion Gering | Drama | 6.2 (311 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
False Madonna, TheA woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man; she comes to feel a true motherly love for the young man, and refuses to try to cheat him. | 1931 | Stuart Walker | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.5 (133 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Girls About TownTwo gold diggers prey on old rich men, but one of them falls in love with a young, rich man. | 1931 | George Cukor | Comedy,Romance | 6.8 (625 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Guilty HandsA district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover. | 1931 | W.S. Van Dyke, Lionel Barrymore | Crime,Drama | 6.9 (798 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Ladies' ManA 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 "society." | 1931 | Lothar Mendes | Drama | 5.9 (174 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Scandal SheetScandal 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, Gi | 1931 | John Cromwell | Crime,Drama | 7.0 (101 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
TransgressionElsie sets out for a holiday in Paris and develops an affair while her husband spends a year working in India. | 1931 | Herbert Brenon | Drama | 5.7 (285 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Vice Squad, TheA diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes. | 1931 | John Cromwell | Crime,Drama | 6.6 (97 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
CynaraLondon barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shop-girl who is out to have him. Told in flashback. | 1932 | King Vidor | Drama,Romance | 6.5 (699 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Jewel RobberyA gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jewellers. | 1932 | William Dieterle | Comedy,Crime,Romance | 7.2 (2.1K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Man WantedA female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary. | 1932 | William Dieterle | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.5 (714 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
One Way PassageA 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 secret. | 1932 | Tay Garnett | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.5 (3.7K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Strangers in LoveStrangers in Love is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lothar Mendes and written by Grover Jones, William J. Locke and William Slavens McNutt. The film stars Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin, Juliette Compton, | 1932 | Lothar Mendes | Comedy,Drama | 6.7 (141 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Street of WomenA married architect, stuck in a loveless marriage, due to his daughter, has an an affair with a dress designer (Natalie). Just when he's ready to ask his wife for a divorce, his daughter falls in love with Natalie's brother. | 1932 | Archie Mayo | Drama,Romance | 6.0 (354 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
La An' a LampA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy,Crime,Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
House on 56th Street, TheIt is the World War I period, and Peggy Martin, a showgirl and mistress to London Fiske, marries her love, handsome Monte Van Tyle. They move into the house on 56th street and have a baby, Eleanor. Monte enlists in the army and is ki | 1933 | Robert Florey | Drama,History | 6.6 (595 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
I Loved a WomanArt student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father's meat packing business on his father's death. He marries social climber Martha who taunts him for his ideals regarding worker happiness and meat purity. He | 1933 | Alfred E. Green | Drama,Romance | 6.0 (331 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Keyhole, TheAnne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. Anne married the much older millionaire Schuyler Brooks only to h | 1933 | Michael Curtiz | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.4 (596 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Mary Stevens, M.D.Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) and her old friend Don Andrews (Lyle Talbot) find themselves graduating from medical school at the same time. They decide to set up their respective medical offices in the same building. Mary builds her rep | 1933 | Lloyd Bacon | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.5 (446 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Storm at DaybreakSarajevo 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 Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visi | 1933 | Richard Boleslawski | Drama,Romance,War | 5.8 (264 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
British AgentIt's 1917. In Russia, the Communist revolution is in full swing. Stephen 'Steve' Locke is a British agent in Russia. The main task of Steve is to prevent the Bolsheviks, led by Joseph Stalin, to sign in Petrograd a separate treaty wi | 1934 | Michael Curtiz | Drama,History,Romance | 6.1 (646 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Dr. MonicaAn obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband. | 1934 | William Keighley, William Dieterle | Drama,Romance | 6.2 (361 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
MandalayAbandoned 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. | 1934 | Michael Curtiz | Drama | 6.6 (854 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
MandalayAbandoned 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. | 1934 | Michael Curtiz | Drama | 6.6 (854 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
MandalayAbandoned 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. | 1934 | Michael Curtiz | Drama | 6.6 (854 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Wonder BarHarry 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 the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out, that Harry wa | 1934 | Lloyd Bacon | Crime,Drama,Musical | 6.6 (650 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Goose and the Gander, TheWife #1 wants ex-husband to catch second wife being unfaithful. | 1935 | Alfred E. Green | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.6 (437 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
I Found Stella ParishA theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop. | 1935 | Mervyn LeRoy | Drama,Romance | 6.7 (450 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Living on VelvetTerry Parker (George Brent) is shattered by the crash of his airplane which killed his parents and sister, and adopts a listless attitude toward life. But romance enters in the person of Amy Prentiss (Kay Francis), the girl friend of | 1935 | Frank Borzage | Drama,Romance | 5.9 (364 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
StrandedA construction engineer with a heart of steel courts a social worker with a heart of gold, while fighting a protection racketeer that tries to derail the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. | 1935 | Frank Borzage | Drama,Romance | 6.5 (473 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Give Me Your HeartAn American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father. | 1936 | Archie Mayo | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.8 (274 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Stolen HolidayNicole Picot is working as a model in a Paris dress salon when she is picked by Stefan Orloff to help him convince a wealthy investor that he is well connected. She is to wear an expensive dress and dine with them because she has "cl | 1937 | Michael Curtiz | Drama,Romance | 6.2 (542 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
White Angel, TheA look at the life of Florence Nightingale. | 1936 | William Dieterle | Biography,Drama | 6.7 (369 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Another DawnColonel 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 Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the de | 1937 | William Dieterle | Drama | 6.1 (628 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
ConfessionAging down on her luck cabaret singer murders a respectable composer. On trial she slowly gives in and explains her crime. They had a complicated history. | 1937 | Joe May | Crime,Drama,Romance | 7.3 (1.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
First LadyAs presidential election time approaches in Washington it is the women behind the scenes who seem to be making the decisions. | 1937 | Stanley Logan | Comedy | 6.2 (457 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Comet Over BroadwayStory of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition. | 1938 | Busby Berkeley, John Farrow | Drama,Romance | 5.6 (391 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
My BillThe town of Colbrook, Massachusetts was founded by the family of the same name, and as such they are its leading family. Widowed Mrs. Reginald Colbrook - Mary - has had to manage the family money following her husband's death, someth | 1938 | John Farrow | Drama,Romance | 6.7 (415 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Secrets of an ActressTwo architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress. | 1938 | William Keighley | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.2 (402 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Women Are Like ThatDomestic strife results when a man refuses to involve his wife in his struggling business. | 1938 | Stanley Logan | Drama | 5.7 (197 votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
In Name OnlyAfter a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue. | 1939 | John Cromwell | Drama,Romance | 7.1 (3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
King of the UnderworldAfter the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board. | 1939 | Lewis Seiler | Crime,Drama,Romance | 6.4 (1.3K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
Women in the WindA pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot. | 1939 | John Farrow | Drama,Romance,Sport | 6.0 (285 votes) | 63 | 20240530 |
It's a DateAn 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 situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man. | 1940 | William A. Seiter | Comedy,Musical,Romance | 6.5 (616 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Little MenJo 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 heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's f | 1940 | Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy,Drama | 5.7 (368 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Play GirlThe fascinating Grace Herbert has many years' experience as a professional gold-digger. Her finances at a low ebb, she finds her mature beauty less effective than of yore, and takes on impoverished 19-year-old Ellen Daley as an appre | 1941 | Frank Woodruff | Comedy,Romance | 6.3 (337 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
When the Daltons RodeFictionalized story of how the Dalton brothers were wronged by a crooked development company and became outlaws when the corrupt local courts offered them no justice. | 1940 | George Marshall | Western | 6.4 (766 votes) | 81 | 20220414 |
Charley's AuntIn 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from. | 1941 | Archie Mayo | Comedy,Romance | 6.9 (589 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Feminine Touch, TheJohn Hathaway is a professor of psychology at Digby College. His students are bored as he is with the students. He leaves college to go to New York to have his manuscript on jealousy published. John and Julie go to Elliott Morgan Pub | 1941 | W.S. Van Dyke | Comedy | 6.4 (884 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Man Who Lost Himself, TheJohn Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role. | 1941 | Edward Ludwig | Comedy | 6.1 (90 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Always in My HeartAfter many years, MacKenzie Scott is pardoned from prison, but his wife is already involved with another man. Nevertheless, he travels incognito to his family's town. There he befriends his daughter Victoria, who doesn't recognize hi | 1942 | Jo Graham | Drama | 6.3 (480 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Between Us GirlsA young actress tries to help her mother's romance by deception, and winds up in some hilarious escapades before learning her lesson. | 1942 | Henry Koster | Comedy,Romance | 6.4 (89 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Four Jills and a JeepReenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas. | 1944 | William A. Seiter | Comedy,Drama,Music | 6.4 (498 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Allotment WivesStory of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action. | 1945 | William Nigh | Crime,Drama,Film-Noir | 6.1 (491 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
DivorceA woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend. | 1945 | William Nigh | Drama,Romance | 5.7 (308 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Wife WantedCareer-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the a | 1946 | Phil Karlson | Action,Crime,Drama | 6.2 (110 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |