Kay Francis
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Kay Francis 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 numb
Francis in 1935
Francis’ mother Katherine Clinton, c. 1902
Francis in a 1930 Paramount Studios publicity photo by Otto Dyar
The House on 56th Street (1933) trailer
The Cocoanuts
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The Cocoanuts is a 1929 pre-Code musical comedy film starring the Marx Brothers. Produced for Paramount Pictures by Walter Wanger, who is not credited, the film also stars Mary Eaton, Oscar Shaw, Marg
Kay Francis
…Gentlemen of the Press (1929). Paramount offered her a starting contract of $300 per week for five weeks. Francis made Press and the Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts (1929) at Paramount's Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens, New York before moving to Hollywood. Major film studios, which had formerly been based in New…
Theatrical release poster
Lobby card