Noel Francis

Noel Francis

Acting 1906-08-31 Temple, Texas, USA

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.

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1937 Lorna Kent
1937 Betty Golden
1935 Elise
1935 Lola
1935 Mimi
1934 Puff Warner
1934 Ruby Cotton
1934 Dolly
1934 Mrs. Eden (uncredited)
1934 Lady Waiting in Georgie's Lobby (uncredited)
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1934 Mae Cosgrove
1933 Ellen Kelly
1933 Letitia
1933 Gladys Gable (uncredited)
1933 Queenie
1933 Red's Girlfriend (uncredited)
1933 Alice Crane
1933 Lydia Johnson
1933 Trudie Holmes
1932 Linda
1932 Miss DeVere
1932 Marge Lyon
1932 Julia Reed
1932 Mabel
1932 Princess Elsa
1932 Daisy
1932 Lil Baker
1932 Connie
1932 Pat
1931 Helen Wilson
1931 Marie
1931 Janet
1931 Peggy Preston
1931 Thelma
1930 Gloria de Witt
1930 Flossie
1930 Sophie (uncredited)