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Kay Francis
Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress.〔Obituary ''Variety'', August 28, 1968, page 63.〕 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 at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest-paid American film actress.〔Osborne, Robert. Introduction to ''King of the Underworld'', Turner Classic Movies (18 September 2008)〕 Some of her film-related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Wesleyan Cinema Archives )〕
==Early life==
Francis was born Katharine Edwina Gibbs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1905.〔The 1910 census lists 1905 as her birth year.〕 Her parents, Joseph Sprague Gibbs and his actress wife Katharine Clinton Francis, had been married in 1903; however, by the time their daughter was four, Joseph had left the family. Francis inherited her unusual height from her father, who stood 6' 4"; she was to become Hollywood's tallest leading lady (5' 9") in the 1930s.
While she never discouraged the assumption that her mother was the pioneering American businesswoman who established the "Katharine Gibbs" chain of vocational schools, Francis was actually raised in the hardscrabble theatrical circuit of the period. In reality, her mother had been born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and eventually became a moderately successful actress and singer under the stage name Katharine Clinton.
Young Kay was often out on the road with her mother, and attended Catholic schools when it was affordable, becoming a student at the Institute of the Holy Angels at age five.〔enumerated on May 28, 1910 (Ancestry.com)〕 After also attending Miss Fuller’s School for Young Ladies in Ossining, New York (1919) and the Cathedral School (1920), she enrolled at the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City. At age 17, Kay became engaged to a well-to-do Pittsfield, Massachusetts man, James Dwight Francis. Their December 1922 marriage at New York's Saint Thomas Church ended in divorce.
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