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Wife Wanted (1946)
Wife Wanted is a 1946 American crime film directed by Phil Karlson, and starring Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, and Robert Shayne. The film's screenplay was written by Caryl Coleman and Sidney Sutherland, based on the novel Wife Wanted by Robert E. Callahan.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Donald Crisp•Conway Tearle
Allotment Wives (1945)
Allotment Wives is a 1945 American film noir directed by William Nigh and starring Kay Francis. Its plot is about an army investigator who tries to shut down a scam that preys on soldiers, and unknowingly falls in love with the woman behind it.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•William B. Davidson•Billie Dove
Divorce (1945)
Divorce is a 1945 drama film about a much-divorced woman who sets her sights on her married childhood friend. It stars Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, and Helen Mack.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Carole Lombard•Polly Moran
Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)
Four Jills in a Jeep is a 1944 American comedy-drama musical film starring Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, and Mitzi Mayfair as themselves, re-enacting their USO tour of Europe and North Africa during World War II.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Clara Bow•William Boyd
Always in My Heart (1942)
Always in My Heart is a 1942 American drama film directed by Jo Graham and starring Kay Francis and Walter Huston. The song "Siempre en Mi Corazón", by Ernesto Lecuona and Kim Gannon was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song.
Starring: William Powell•Diana Barrymore•Warren William
Between Us Girls (1942)
Between Us Girls is a 1942 American drama film directed by Henry Koster and starring Diana Barrymore, Kay Francis, Robert Cummings, John Boles, Andy Devine, and Scotty Beckett.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Genevieve Tobin•Ronald Colman
Charley's Aunt (1941)
Charley's Aunt is a 1941 American historical comedy film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Jack Benny and Kay Francis. It was the third filmed version of the 1892 stage farce of the same name by Brandon Thomas. It remained one of Benny's personal favourites among his own films.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Clive Brook•Lilyan Tashman
The Feminine Touch (1941)
The Feminine Touch is a 1941 American comedy film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and starring Rosalind Russell and Don Ameche.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Basil Rathbone•Fay Wray
The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
The Man Who Lost Himself is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Brian Aherne, Kay Francis and Nils Asther. Aherne plays a man who encounters his exact double and is later mistaken for the other man who is now dead. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Henry De Vere Stacpoole. The novel was also previousl...
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Walter Pidgeon•Richard Arlen
Play Girl (1941)
Play Girl is a 1941 romantic comedy film, starring Kay Francis as an aging gold digger who decides to pass on her skills to a young protégée, and featuring James Ellison, Mildred Coles, Nigel Bruce, Margaret Hamilton and Katherine Alexander.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Nils Asther
It's a Date (1940)
It's a Date is a 1940 American musical film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, and Walter Pidgeon. Based on a story by Jane Hall, Frederick Kohner, and Ralph Block, the film is about an aspiring actress who is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more experienced actress, was hop...
Starring: Joel McCrea•Diana Barrymore•Paul Lukas
Little Men (1940)
Little Men (1940) is an American film based on the novel Little Men (1871) by Louisa May Alcott. Norman Z. McLeod directed the film. It is the second sequel to Little Women after Little Men
Starring: Walter Huston•Diana Barrymore•Kay Johnson
When the Daltons Rode (1940)
When the Daltons Rode is a 1940 American Western film directed by George Marshall and starring Randolph Scott, Kay Francis and Brian Donlevy. Based on the 1931 book of the same name by Emmett Dalton, a member of the Dalton Gang, and Jack Jungmeyer Sr., the film also includes a fictional family friend who tries to dissuade the Dalton brothers from b...
Starring: Fredric March•Diana Barrymore•Jack Benny
In Name Only (1939)
In Name Only is a 1939 romantic film starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis, directed by John Cromwell. It was based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer. The fictional town where it is set, Bridgefield, Connecticut, is based on the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Starring: Charles Bickford•Diana Barrymore•Miriam Hopkins
King of the Underworld (1939)
King of the Underworld is a 1939 crime drama film starring Humphrey Bogart as a gangster and Kay Francis as a doctor forced to treat him. It was directed by Lewis Seiler. It is a remake of the 1935 film Dr. Socrates, which was based on a short story by W. R. Burnett.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•David Manners
Women in the Wind (1939)
Women in the Wind is a 1939 film directed by John Farrow and starring Kay Francis, William Gargan and Victor Jory. The plot concerns women pilots competing in the so-called "Powder Puff Derby", an annual transcontinental air race solely for women.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Paul Cavanagh•Pat O'Brien
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
Comet over Broadway (1938) is an American film starring Kay Francis and released by Warner Brothers. John Farrow stepped in as director when Busby Berkeley became ill, but Farrow was uncredited on the film.
Starring: Robert Cummings•Diana Barrymore•Ann Gillis
My Bill (1938)
My Bill is a 1938 drama film starring Kay Francis as a poor widow raising four children. It was based on the play Courage by Tom Barry.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Randolph Scott•Cary Grant
Secrets of an Actress (1938)
Secrets of an Actress is a 1938 romantic drama film directed by William Keighley, and starring Kay Francis, George Brent, and Ian Hunter. It is about a love triangle between a stage actress, her financial backer, and his friend.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Gloria Warren•Ann Gillis
Women Are Like That (1938)
Women Are Like That is a 1938 American drama film directed by Stanley Logan and written by Horace Jackson. The film stars Kay Francis, Pat O'Brien, Ralph Forbes, Melville Cooper, Thurston Hall and Grant Mitchell. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 24, 1938.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Lyle Talbot•Aline MacMahon
Another Dawn (1937)
Another Dawn is a 1937 American film melodrama directed by William Dieterle and starring Errol Flynn and Kay Francis. It is based on Somerset Maugham's 1919 play Caesar's Wife. The film received dismissive reviews.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Helen Mack•Ann Gillis
Confession (1937)
Confession is a 1937 drama film starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone and Jane Bryan. It was directed by Joe May and is a scene-for-scene remake of the 1935 German film Mazurka starring Pola Negri, which Warner Brothers Studios acquired the U.S. distribution rights for and then shelved in favour of the remake.
Starring: Bruce Cabot•Diana Barrymore•Ann Gillis
First Lady (1937)
First Lady is a 1937 film about behind-the-scenes political maneuverings in Washington, D.C. directed by Stanley Logan and starring Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise, Walter Connolly and Verree Teasdale. Francis and Teasdale portray bitter rivals in their pursuit of the titular role of First Lady. The picture is based on the 1935 play of th...
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Walter Connolly•Jean Muir
Stolen Holiday (1937)
Stolen Holiday is a 1937 film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Kay Francis, Claude Rains and Ian Hunter. It is loosely based on the Stavisky Affair, a French political scandal. A Russian con artist worms his way into the upper reaches of French society, but is finally exposed, with tragic consequences.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Cesar Romero•Ann Gillis
Give Me Your Heart (1936)
Give Me Your Heart was a 1936 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Roland Young. It was a melodrama based on the 1934 London play Sweet Aloes, by Joyce Carey. Leading lady Kay Francis, playing the familiar role of a self-sacrificing mother, had a difficult working relationship with the director thro...
Starring: Gertrude Michael•Diana Barrymore•Gloria Warren•Henry O'Neill
The White Angel (1936)
The White Angel is a 1936 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter and Donald Woods. The film depicts Florence Nightingale's pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War. It was produced and distributed by Hollywood studio Warner Brothers.
Starring: Robert Cummings•Diana Barrymore•Ann Gillis
The Goose and the Gander (1935)
The Goose and the Gander is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Genevieve Tobin. A woman finds out her ex-husband's new wife is cheating on him and decides to expose her.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Gloria Warren
I Found Stella Parish (1935)
I Found Stella Parish is a 1935 melodrama starring Kay Francis as a beloved actress whose dark secret is revealed to the world.
Starring: Deanna Durbin•Diana Barrymore•Ann Gillis
Living on Velvet (1935)
Living on Velvet is a 1935 American romantic drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Kay Francis, Warren William and George Brent.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Gloria Warren•Carole Landis
Stranded (1935)
Stranded is a 1935 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Kay Francis, George Brent and Patricia Ellis.
Starring: Anne Baxter•Diana Barrymore•Gloria Warren
British Agent (1934)
British Agent is a 1934 American romantic espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis. It is based on Memoirs of a British Agent, the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who worked for the British Secret Service during the Russian Revolution and had an affair with a Russian agent, later known as Mour...
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Lionel Barrymore•Conway Tearle
Dr. Monica (1934)
Dr. Monica is a 1934 American pre-Code melodrama film produced by Warner Bros. starring Kay Francis, Warren William, and Jean Muir. An obstetrician, who is unable to have children, discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.
Starring: Warner Oland•Diana Barrymore•William B. Davidson
Mandalay (1934)
Mandalay is a 1934 American pre Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Austin Parker and Charles Kenyon based on a story by Paul Hervey Fox. The film stars Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland and Lyle Talbot, and features Ruth Donnelly and Reginald Owen.
Starring: Billie Dove•Margaret Lindsay•Diana Barrymore
Wonder Bar (1934)
Wonder Bar is a 1934 American pre-Code film adaptation of a Broadway musical of the same name directed by Lloyd Bacon with musical numbers created by Busby Berkeley.
Starring: Polly Moran•Clara Bow•Diana Barrymore
The House on 56th Street (1933)
The House on 56th Street is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film. The film's plot involves a miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and alienation of a prisoner from her only living relative.
Starring: Margaret Lindsay•Diana Barrymore•William Powell
I Loved a Woman (1933)
I Loved a Woman is a 1933 American pre-Code drama directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, and Genevieve Tobin. According to producer Hal Wallis' autobiography, Robinson and Francis "were oddly matched. Kay was so tall that we had to put Eddie [Robinson] on a box in some scenes to bring him level with her and, understa...
Starring: Warren William•Diana Barrymore•Ricardo Cortez
The Keyhole (1933)
The Keyhole is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Kay Francis, George Brent, Glenda Farrell and Allen Jenkins. It was released by Warner Bros. on March 25, 1933. A woman with two husbands tries to divorce one of them by heading down to Havana where things get more complicated.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Gloria Warren•Ronald Colman
Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)
Mary Stevens, M.D. is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot and Glenda Farrell. The film was directed by Lloyd Bacon and based on the story by Virginia Kellogg. It was released by Warner Bros. on July 22, 1933. A female doctor who has romantic troubles decides to have a baby without the benefit of marriage.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Ronald Colman•Jean Arthur
Storm at Daybreak (1933)
Storm at Daybreak is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Richard Boleslawski, written by Bertram Millhauser, and starring Kay Francis, Nils Asther, Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Eugene Pallette and C. Henry Gordon. It was released on July 14, 1933, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Clive Brook•Diana Barrymore
Cynara (1932)
Cynara is an American pre-Code 1932 romantic drama film about a British lawyer who pays a heavy price for an affair. It stars Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, and Phyllis Barry. It is based on the 1928 novel An Imperfect Lover by Robert Gore-Browne. In February 2020, the film was shown at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, as part of a retrosp...
Starring: Lilyan Tashman•Diana Barrymore•Dolores del Río
Jewel Robbery (1932)
Jewel Robbery is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy heist film, directed by William Dieterle and starring William Powell and Kay Francis. It is based on the 1931 Hungarian play Ékszerrablás a Váci-utcában by Ladislas Fodor and its subsequent English adaptation, Jewel Robbery by Bertram Bloch.
Starring: Jean Muir•Diana Barrymore•Richard Arlen
Man Wanted (1932)
Man Wanted is a pre-Code 1932 romance film starring Kay Francis as a married magazine editor who hires a handsome secretary, David Manners. The film features Una Merkel and Andy Devine in supporting roles.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Al Jolson
One Way Passage (1932)
One Way Passage is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros. The screenplay by Wilson Mizner and Joseph Jackson is based on a story by Robert Lord, who won the Academy Award for Best Story.
Starring: Jean Muir•Diana Barrymore•Joel McCrea
Strangers in Love (1932)
Strangers in Love is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Lothar Mendes, written by Grover Jones, William J. Locke and William Slavens McNutt, and starring Fredric March, Kay Francis, Stuart Erwin, Juliette Compton, George Barbier, Sidney Toler and Earle Foxe. It was released on March 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Kay Johnson
Street of Women (1932)
Street of Women is a 1932 pre-Code romantic drama directed by Archie Mayo and starring Kay Francis and Roland Young.
Starring: Gertrude Michael•Diana Barrymore
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Trouble in Paradise is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall. Based on the 1931 play The Honest Finder by Hungarian playwright László Aladár, the lead characters are a gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket who join forces to con a beautiful woman who i...
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Helen Vinson•Edward G. Robinson
The False Madonna (1931)
The False Madonna is a 1931 American drama film directed by Stuart Walker, and written by May Edginton, Ray Harris, and Arthur Kober. The film stars Kay Francis, William "Stage" Boyd, Conway Tearle, John Breeden, Marjorie Gateson, and Charles D. Brown. The film was released on December 5, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Charles Bickford•Miriam Hopkins•Diana Barrymore
Girls About Town (1931)
Girls About Town is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Kay Francis and Joel McCrea.
Starring: Regis Toomey•David Manners•Diana Barrymore
Guilty Hands (1931)
Guilty Hands is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film starring Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis and Madge Evans and directed by W. S. Van Dyke, with uncredited assistance from Barrymore. The story concerns an attorney who murders a man who wants to marry his daughter.
Starring: Leslie Howard•Glenda Farrell•Diana Barrymore
Ladies' Man (1931)
Ladies' Man is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Lothar Mendes, starring William Powell, Kay Francis and Carole Lombard. It was released on May 9, 1931 by Paramount.
Starring: Charles Bickford•Jean Muir•Diana Barrymore
Scandal Sheet (1931)
Scandal Sheet is a 1931 American crime film directed by John Cromwell and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin. The film stars George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey, Lucien Littlefield, Gilbert Emery and Harry Beresford. The film was released on January 31, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Judith Wood•Phyllis Barry•Diana Barrymore
Transgression (1931)
Transgression is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, using a screenplay written by Elizabeth Meehan, adapted from Kate Jordan's 1921 novel, The Next Corner. The film stars Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, and Ricardo Cortez, and deals with the romantic entanglements of a wealthy English businessman, his wife and a Spanish nob...
Starring: Margaret Lindsay•Diana Barrymore•Donald Crisp
24 Hours (1931)
24 Hours is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Marion Gering and starring Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins and Regis Toomey. It was based on the novel Twenty-Four Hours by Louis Bromfield and the play Shattered Glass by Will D. Lengle and Lew Levenson. In the film, an alcoholic married man is accused of murdering the w...
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Helen Vinson•Lyle Talbot
The Vice Squad (1931)
The Vice Squad is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by John Cromwell, written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, and starring Paul Lukas, Kay Francis, Judith Wood, William B. Davidson, Rockliffe Fellowes, Esther Howard and Monte Carter. It was released on May 30, 1931, by Paramount Pictures.
Starring: Deanna Durbin•Diana Barrymore•Aline MacMahon
Behind the Make-Up (1930)
Behind the Make-Up is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Robert Milton and Dorothy Arzner, and based on the short story "The Feeder" by Mildred Cram. The film stars Hal Skelly, William Powell, Kay Francis, and Fay Wray.
Starring: Jean Muir•Cesar Romero•Diana Barrymore
For the Defense (1930)
For the Defense is a 1930 pre-Code crime drama film starring William Powell as a lawyer whose ethics are challenged when the woman he loves hits and kills a pedestrian while out driving with another suitor.
Starring: William B. Davidson•Jean Muir•Diana Barrymore
A Notorious Affair (1930)
A Notorious Affair is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film, produced and released by First National Pictures. It was directed by Lloyd Bacon, starred Billie Dove, and featured Basil Rathbone and Kay Francis. The film was adapted from the play Fame, which was written by Audrey and Waverly Carter.
Starring: Billie Dove•Bruce Cabot•Diana Barrymore
Passion Flower (1930)
Passion Flower is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed and produced by William C. deMille and starring Kay Francis, Kay Johnson and Charles Bickford in a romantic triangle. This production includes actor Ray Milland's American screen debut, although his appearance as a party guest is uncredited.
Starring: Diana Barrymore•Clara Bow•Jean Arthur
Raffles (1930)
Raffles is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-mystery film produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It stars Ronald Colman as the title character, a proper English gentleman who moonlights as a notorious jewel thief, and Kay Francis as his love interest. It is based on the play Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1906) by E. W. Hornung and Eugene Wiley Presbrey, which...
Starring: Lilyan Tashman•Diana Barrymore
Street of Chance (1930)
Street of Chance is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by John Cromwell and starring William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis and Regis Toomey. Howard Estabrook was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Achievement.
Starring: Jean Muir•Richard Arlen•Diana Barrymore
The Virtuous Sin (1930)
The Virtuous Sin is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor and Louis J. Gasnier and starring Walter Huston, Kay Francis, and Kenneth MacKenna. The screenplay by Martin Brown and Louise Long is based on the 1928 play The General by Lajos Zilahy. A separate 1931 German-language version The Night of Decision was shot at Pa...
Starring: William Powell•Diana Barrymore
Dangerous Curves (1929)
Dangerous Curves is a 1929 American Pre-Code film starring Clara Bow and Richard Arlen. It was released by Paramount Pictures and was the first Hollywood film for Kay Francis.
Starring: Kay Johnson•Charles Bickford•Diana Barrymore