Kay Francis
Katherine Edwina Gibbs
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Emerging from a theatrical family in Oklahoma City, she attended Catholic schools, a girls’ academy in New York and the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School before launching a brief Broadway stint in the mid-1920s. A screen test arranged by Walter Huston led to a contract with Paramount, where she debuted in Gentlemen of the Press (1929) and appeared in the Marx Brothers’ The Cocoanuts the same year…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
