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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1906-08-31
Place of Birth: Temple, Texas, USA
Also Known As: Noel Frances Sweeney, Noel Frances

Movies List of Noel Francis

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Blonde Crazy

1931 Movie
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Smart Money

1931 Movie
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Sudden Bill Dorn

1937 Movie
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Bachelor Apartment

1931 Movie
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The Mouthpiece

1932 Movie
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Manhattan Tower

1932 Movie
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Smart Woman

1931 Movie
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Good Dame

1934 Movie
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The White Cockatoo

1935 Movie
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The Important Witness

1933 Movie
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Rough Romance

1930 Movie
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Guilty as Hell

1932 Movie
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So Big!

1932 Movie
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Fifteen Wives

1934 Movie
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Only Yesterday

1933 Movie
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My Pal, the King

1932 Movie
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Havana Widows

1933 Movie
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The Expert

1932 Movie
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Night Court

1932 Movie
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Under-Cover Man

1932 Movie
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Stone of Silver Creek

1935 Movie
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Son of a Sailor

1933 Movie
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Blood Money

1933 Movie
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The Loudspeaker

1934 Movie
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Left-Handed Law

1937 Movie
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Mutiny Ahead

1935 Movie
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Imitation of Life

1934 Movie
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Up the River

1930 Movie
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Reform Girl

1933 Movie
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Strictly Dynamite

1934 Movie
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Flames

1932 Movie