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person_profile-Noel Francis

Noel Francis Died at age: 53

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Noel Francis

Date of Birth:

Aug 31, 1906

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Oct 30, 1959

Biography of

Noel Francis

    Noel Francis was born in Temple, Texas in 1906. By age 20 she was appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies, working opposite the comedy team of Wheeler and Woolsey. Eventually Fox scouts noticed her and in 1929 she was signed to a Hollywood contract. Because of her Follies background, Fox intended to develop Noel as a musical and dance star. Unfortunately, musicals were on the wane at the time (they did rebound) and her contract was dropped. Luckily, she was picked up by Warner Brothers, and featured in a number of films that had her portraying the tough talking, sassy female connected to gangsters, convicts, and other underworld types, so popular with the movie going public then and now.

    Noel was rarely given the lead female role, though she worked near the top with some of the era's best actors in films that included Smart Money (1931), in which she is a scheming blonde helping Edward G. Robinson lose his money, and Blonde Crazy (1931), where her target is James Cagney. Her most noted performance was in I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), working with Paul Muni in one of his strongest performances. However, perhaps because of being typecast, she found herself in "B" productions after 1932, though one was as the lead female, in Mayfair Picture Corporation's 1934 What's Your Racket?, opposite Regis Toomey.

    Needing work, Noel returned to Broadway, but couldn't resume her career there, and returned to Hollywood to make three final films with Buck Jones, including Stone of Silver Creek (1935), in which she used her Broadway musical expertise to play a saloon singer. Between 1929 and 1937 Noel made 47 films.

    She died October 30, 1959 in Los Angeles, California.

Photos of

Noel Francis

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Filmography of

Noel Francis

Found 36 Movies in total

Sudden Bill Dorn

Lorna Kent ( Actor )

... 1937

Left-Handed Law

Betty Golden ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1935

Mutiny Ahead

Mimi ( Actor )

... 1935

The White Cockatoo

Elise ( Actor )

... 1935

Imitation of Life

Mrs. Eden (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Fifteen Wives

Ruby Cotton ( Actor )

... 1934

The Loudspeaker

Dolly ( Actor )

... 1934

Strictly Dynamite

Lady Waiting in Georgie's Lobby (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Good Dame

Puff Warner ( Actor )

... 1934

Son of a Sailor

Queenie ( Actor )

... 1933

Havana Widows

Gladys Gable (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Blood Money

Red's Girlfriend (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1933

Only Yesterday

Letitia ( Actor )

... 1933

Bureau of Missing Persons

Alice Crane ( Actor )

... 1933

The Important Witness

Ellen Kelly ( Actor )

... 1933

Hold Me Tight

Trudie Holmes ( Actor )

... 1933

Reform Girl

Lydia Johnson ( Actor )

... 1933

Under-Cover Man

Connie ( Actor )

... 1932

Manhattan Tower

Marge Lyon ( Actor )

... 1932

... 1932

Guilty as Hell

Julia Reed ( Actor )

... 1932

Night Court

Lil Baker ( Actor )

... 1932

Flames

Pat ( Actor )

... 1932

So Big!

Mabel ( Actor )

... 1932

My Pal, the King

Princess Elsa ( Actor )

... 1932

The Mouthpiece

Miss DeVere ( Actor )

... 1932

The Expert

Daisy ( Actor )

... 1932

Ladies of the Big House

Thelma ( Actor )

... 1931

Blonde Crazy

Helen Wilson ( Actor )

... 1931

Smart Woman

Peggy Preston ( Actor )

... 1931

Smart Money

Marie ( Actor )

... 1931

Bachelor Apartment

Janet ( Actor )

... 1931

Up the River

Sophie (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1930

Rough Romance

Flossie ( Actor )

... 1930

New Movietone Follies of 1930

Gloria de Witt ( Actor )

... 1930