Kay Francis Movies

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Miriam Hopkins

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Groucho Marx

A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cary Grant

Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

A 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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: William Powell

Unscrupulous women marry servicemen for their pay.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Benny

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron's wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller's shop.

Genre: Romance

Cast: William Powell

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits...

Genre: History

Cast: Kay Francis

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kay Francis

Colonel 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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kay Francis

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kay Francis

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosalind Russell

A man is pardoned from prison and returns to Santa Rita, CA to be with his family, but discovers his children have been told he's dead and his wife...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life--he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed "The Amateur Cracksman". When he meets a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ronald Colman

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kay Francis

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

When British mining engineer Robert Maury is sent to India on an extended business trip, his wife Elsie finds romance with a Spanish playboy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

An 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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deanna Durbin

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...

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

Harry 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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Al Jolson

In the days leading up to the Russian Revolution, Stephen Locke, a minor British diplomat in St Petersburg, falls in love with a Russian spy.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Leslie Howard

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Bancroft

An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter. The complicated entanglement leads to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clara Bow

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Brian

Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fredric March

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ronald Colman

'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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Powell

A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billie Dove

Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

Genre: War

Cast: Walter Huston

A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kay Francis

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kay Francis

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Francis

Gardoni, 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hal Skelly

A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kay Francis

William Foster is a slick attorney who stays within the law, but specializes in representing crooks and shady characters. He's adept at keeping them...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Powell

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Lukas

Businesswoman Claire King is the daughter of a powerful advertising executive. When Claire marries humble copywriter Bill Landin, she wants to use...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A short, introduced in Pennsylvania when the state had laws disallowing the screening of films on Sunday, to sway voters on a referendum to allow...

Genre:

Cast: Irvin S. Cobb

A vaudeville magician team is broken up when Carlee, an ex--circus performer, becomes infatuated with socialite Hilda Schmittlap. Meanwhile his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

Jo 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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kay Francis

A short documentary about William Powell.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael York

A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Huston

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1936.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ross Alexander

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Diana Barrymore

Second installment of deleted scenes, mostly musical or comedic, from Fox films of the 30's - 50's.

Genre: Music

Cast: Joan Collins

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brian Aherne

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eddie Acuff

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Rains

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1935.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Armstrong

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Blondell

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Walt Disney

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda