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Noel Francis‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1906-08-31

Popularity

star1.5

Noel Francis

Temple, Texas, USA

Noel Francis

Temple, Texas, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1906-08-31

Popularity

star1.5

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang‌
star7.8
calendar 1932

Blonde Crazy

Blonde Crazy‌
star7.0
calendar 1931

Smart Money

Smart Money‌
star6.9
calendar 1931

Sudden Bill Dorn

Sudden Bill Dorn‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

Bachelor Apartment

Bachelor Apartment‌
star6.2
calendar 1931

The Mouthpiece

The Mouthpiece‌
star5.9
calendar 1932

Manhattan Tower

Manhattan Tower‌
star6.0
calendar 1932

Smart Woman

Smart Woman‌
star6.0
calendar 1931

Good Dame

Good Dame‌
star6.0
calendar 1934

The White Cockatoo

The White Cockatoo‌
star5.3
calendar 1935

New Movietone Follies of 1930

New Movietone Follies of 1930‌
star0.0
calendar 1930

The Important Witness

The Important Witness‌
star5.0
calendar 1933

Rough Romance

Rough Romance‌
star5.0
calendar 1930

Guilty as Hell

Guilty as Hell‌
star5.8
calendar 1932

So Big!

So Big!‌
star5.8
calendar 1932

Fifteen Wives

Fifteen Wives‌
star1.0
calendar 1934

Only Yesterday

Only Yesterday‌
star6.8
calendar 1933

Ladies of the Big House

Ladies of the Big House‌
star6.0
calendar 1931

My Pal, the King

My Pal, the King‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Havana Widows

Havana Widows‌
star5.8
calendar 1933

The Expert

The Expert‌
star6.3
calendar 1932

Night Court

Night Court‌
star6.3
calendar 1932

Under-Cover Man

Under-Cover Man‌
star4.5
calendar 1932

Stone of Silver Creek

Stone of Silver Creek‌
star0.0
calendar 1935

Son of a Sailor

Son of a Sailor‌
star5.0
calendar 1933

Blood Money

Blood Money‌
star7.0
calendar 1933

The Loudspeaker

The Loudspeaker‌
star0.0
calendar 1934

Bureau of Missing Persons

Bureau of Missing Persons‌
star5.6
calendar 1933

Left-Handed Law

Left-Handed Law‌
star4.0
calendar 1937

Mutiny Ahead

Mutiny Ahead‌
star4.0
calendar 1935

Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life‌
star7.0
calendar 1934

Up the River

Up the River‌
star6.0
calendar 1930

Reform Girl

Reform Girl‌
star5.5
calendar 1933

Strictly Dynamite

Strictly Dynamite‌
star5.3
calendar 1934

Flames

Flames‌
star4.0
calendar 1932

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