Movies by Kay Francis

Storm at Daybreak

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 Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.

Between Us Girls

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.

Transgression

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.

I Loved a Woman

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 love.

Passion Flower

Passion Flower

A bored society woman invites scandal and heartache when she falls in love with her low-born chauffeur.

When the Daltons Rode

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 their land to a crooked development company. When Tod tries to help them, a faked murder charge turns the Daltons into outlaws, but more victims than villains in this fictionalized version. Will Tod stay loyal to his friends despite falling in love with Bob Dalton's former fiancée Julie?

Cynara

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.

Girls About Town

Girls About Town

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

Ladies' Man

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 "society."

Women Are Like That

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 her influence to help her husband get ahead, but he will have none of it.

Street of Chance

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 Francis), wants to divorce him because of his addiction and lifestyle, but they agree on a reconciliation and second honeymoon together and 'Natural' promises to give up gambling. However, his plans change when his brother, 'Babe' (Regis Toomey), arrives in town looking to score big, and 'Natural' has to devise a plan quickly to put him off gambling forever.

Play Girl

Play Girl

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.

Mandalay

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.

Dr. Monica

Dr. Monica

A prominent New York doctor, unable to have a child, discovers her philandering husband has impregnated her best friend.

Let's Go Native

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.

24 Hours

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.

Charley's Aunt

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.

I Found Stella Parish

I Found Stella Parish

A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.

Trouble in Paradise

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 to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

The Goose and the Gander

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 to expose the rendezvous and pay her back.