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Kay Francis

1905 - 1968

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Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; January 13, 1905 – August 26, 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 and highest-paid actress at Warner Bros. studio. She adopted her mother's maiden name (Francis) as her professional surname. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kay Francis is the 4,498th most popular actor (up from 5,510th in 2019), the 7,147th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,027th in 2019) and the 2,072nd most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Kay Francis ranks 4,498 out of 13,578. Before her are Slavko Štimac, Kim Raver, Matt Ross, Haruko Sugimura, Ram Charan, and Trish Van Devere. After her are Regimantas Adomaitis, Momoe Yamaguchi, Tantoo Cardinal, Ulrich Tukur, Ally Sheedy, and Ariane Ascaride.

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Among people born in 1905, Kay Francis ranks 266. Before her are Theodor Blank, J. William Fulbright, Albert W. Tucker, Leila Hyams, László Papp, and Stanisław Mazur. After her are Ashley Montagu, Jenő Rejtő, Philip Ahn, René Bondoux, Mario de las Casas, and Baltasar Albéniz. Among people deceased in 1968, Kay Francis ranks 188. Before her are Mervyn Peake, Tim Ahearne, Francis Biddle, Luigi Cevenini, Martin Frič, and René Navarre. After her are Antonio Pietrangeli, Hugo Benioff, Jess Willard, Astrid Cleve, Dorothy Holman, and Pietro Pastore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kay Francis ranks 7,149 out of 20,380. Before her are Mia Hamm (1972), Kim Raver (1969), Matt Ross (1970), Ad Reinhardt (1913), Trish Van Devere (1941), and Johnny "Guitar" Watson (1935). After her are Hugo Benioff (1899), Candida Royalle (1950), Michael Hoffman (1956), Sherm Clark (1899), Evelyn Lear (1926), and Ally Sheedy (1962).

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Among actors born in United States, Kay Francis ranks 2,073. Before her are Amanda Peet (1972), Richard Mulligan (1932), Ajita Wilson (1950), Kim Raver (1969), Matt Ross (1970), and Trish Van Devere (1941). After her are Ally Sheedy (1962), Moe Howard (1897), Isabela Moner (2001), Evan Peters (1987), Harrison Young (1930), and Warren Frost (1925).

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