Noel Francis

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.

  • Titel: Noel Francis
  • Populariteit: 0.796
  • Bekend fan: Acting
  • Jierdei: 1906-08-31
  • Berteplak: Temple, Texas, USA
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  • Ek bekind as: Noel Frances Sweeney, Noel Frances
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Noel Francis Films

  • 1932
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    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    7.8 1932 HD

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  • 1931
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    Blonde Crazy

    Blonde Crazy

    7 1931 HD

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    Smart Money

    Smart Money

    6.9 1931 HD

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    Sudden Bill Dorn

    Sudden Bill Dorn

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1931
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    Bachelor Apartment

    Bachelor Apartment

    6.2 1931 HD

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    The Mouthpiece

    The Mouthpiece

    5.889 1932 HD

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    Manhattan Tower

    Manhattan Tower

    6 1932 HD

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  • 1931
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    Smart Woman

    Smart Woman

    5.9 1931 HD

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  • 1934
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    Good Dame

    Good Dame

    6 1934 HD

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  • 1935
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    The White Cockatoo

    The White Cockatoo

    5.3 1935 HD

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    New Movietone Follies of 1930

    New Movietone Follies of 1930

    1 1930 HD

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    The Important Witness

    The Important Witness

    5 1933 HD

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    Rough Romance

    Rough Romance

    5 1930 HD

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    Guilty as Hell

    Guilty as Hell

    5.8 1932 HD

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    So Big!

    So Big!

    5.846 1932 HD

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  • 1934
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    Fifteen Wives

    Fifteen Wives

    1 1934 HD

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    Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    6.8 1933 HD

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    Ladies of the Big House

    Ladies of the Big House

    6 1931 HD

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    My Pal, the King

    My Pal, the King

    1 1932 HD

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    Havana Widows

    Havana Widows

    5.8 1933 HD

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    The Expert

    The Expert

    6.3 1932 HD

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    Night Court

    Night Court

    6.3 1932 HD

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    Under-Cover Man

    Under-Cover Man

    4.5 1932 HD

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  • 1935
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    Stone of Silver Creek

    Stone of Silver Creek

    1 1935 HD

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    Son of a Sailor

    Son of a Sailor

    5 1933 HD

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    Blood Money

    Blood Money

    7 1933 HD

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    The Loudspeaker

    The Loudspeaker

    1 1934 HD

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    Bureau of Missing Persons

    Bureau of Missing Persons

    5.6 1933 HD

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  • 1937
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    Left-Handed Law

    Left-Handed Law

    4 1937 HD

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    Mutiny Ahead

    Mutiny Ahead

    4 1935 HD

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    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    7 1934 HD

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  • 1930
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    Up the River

    Up the River

    6 1930 HD

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  • 1933
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    Reform Girl

    Reform Girl

    5.5 1933 HD

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    Strictly Dynamite

    Strictly Dynamite

    5.3 1934 HD

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    Flames

    Flames

    4 1932 HD

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    Hold Me Tight

    Hold Me Tight

    1 1933 HD

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