Kay Francis Movies

francis 1111Want to know the best Kay Francis movies?  How about the worst Kay Francis movies?  Curious about Kay Francis box office grosses or which Kay Francis movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Kay Francis movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences and which ones got the worst reviews? Well you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.

Kay Francis (1905-1968) 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 at the Warner Brothers studio and the highest-paid American film actress. Her IMDb page shows 72 acting credits from 1929-1951. This page will rank 49 Kay Francis movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information.  Television roles, some of her early Paramount movies (of course) and her 3 late Monogram movies (who?) were not included.

Drivel part of the page:  During our research we stumble across a nice treasure every once in awhile.  A couple of years ago we found this webpage on Kay Francis.  Well….we put all of the Francis box office rentals from that page into our database….and pretty much forgot it.  While recently Flora, requested a Kay Francis page….so it was a nice surprise to find domestic and worldwide box office rentals on almost 40 of her movies all ready to go.

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Kay Francis Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Kay Francis movies by co-stars of her movies
  • Sort Kay Francis movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
  • Sort Kay Francis movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Kay Francis movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and Oscar® wins each Kay Francis movie received.
  • Sort Kay Francis movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
  • Use the sort and search buttons to make this table very interactive.  For example…if you type in “William Powell” in the search box….the 3 Powell/Francis movies will pop right up.

Kay Francis Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses

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Possibly Interesting Facts About Kay Francis

1. Katharine Edwina Gibbs was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1905.  Her nickname as a child was Kay…..and her first husband was James Francis….which is how she became Kay Francis.

2. Kay Francis had a speech impediment. She was known around the Paramount lot as “the wavishing Kay Fwancis.”…..that sounds kind of mean spirited.

3.  From the years 1930 to 1937, Kay Francis appeared on the covers of 38 film magazines, the most for any adult performer and second only to Shirley Temple who appeared on 138 covers during that period.

4. Kay Francis was married five times…but never had any children.

5. Kay Francis was considered for the Scarlett O’Hara role in Gone With The Wind….then again it seems every acting actress of the 1930s was considered.

6.  Kay Francis and her movies did not get much Oscar® love.  She was never nominated for an Oscar®…..she never starred in a Best Picture Oscar® nominated movie….only four of her movies got a Oscar® nomination…and only one won an Oscar®.

7.  Kay Francis’ star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6766 Hollywood Blvd.

8.  Kay Francis left most of her $1 million estate to train dogs at Seeing Eye, Inc.

9.  Kay Francis’ career adjusted box office gross was over $2.85 billion.

10.  Check out Kay Francis’ movie career compared to current and classic stars on our Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time page.

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57 thoughts on “Kay Francis Movies”

    1. Hi Mr. Cogerson,
      If This helps.
      In the top 25 cities here is the data from 1931.
      Thx

      Girl’s About Town, $447,100.00 Kay Francis, Joel McCrea, 1931

      Reply

  3. What a striking face! Just discovered her recently after watching Little Men. Read the biography ‘I Can’t Wait to be Forgotten ‘
    Lovely down to earth, very sexy woman.

    Reply

    1. Hey Steve….good to see that someone discovered Kay Francis…..and that you found our Kay page. Good comment.

      Reply

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