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.

  • Title: Noel Francis
  • Popularity: 1.319
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1906-08-31
  • Place of Birth: Temple, Texas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Noel Frances Sweeney, Noel Frances
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Noel Francis Movies

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    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

    7.8 1932 HD

    A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

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    Blonde Crazy

    Blonde Crazy

    7 1931 HD

    Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.

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    Smart Money

    Smart Money

    6.9 1931 HD

    Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.

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    Sudden Bill Dorn

    Sudden Bill Dorn

    1 1937 HD

    Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch. But Bill and Kent's niece Lorna have...

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    Bachelor Apartment

    Bachelor Apartment

    6.2 1931 HD

    A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.

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    The Mouthpiece

    The Mouthpiece

    5.889 1932 HD

    A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

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    Manhattan Tower

    Manhattan Tower

    6 1932 HD

    The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.

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    Smart Woman

    Smart Woman

    5.9 1931 HD

    A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically...

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  • 1934
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    Good Dame

    Good Dame

    6 1934 HD

    A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can...

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  • 1935
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    The White Cockatoo

    The White Cockatoo

    5.3 1935 HD

    In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of...

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    New Movietone Follies of 1930

    New Movietone Follies of 1930

    1 1930 HD

    Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam...

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    The Important Witness

    The Important Witness

    5 1933 HD

    A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and...

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    Rough Romance

    Rough Romance

    5 1930 HD

    Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.

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    Guilty as Hell

    Guilty as Hell

    5.8 1932 HD

    Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the...

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    So Big!

    So Big!

    5.846 1932 HD

    A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

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    Fifteen Wives

    Fifteen Wives

    1 1934 HD

    Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel. Inspector Decker Dawes...

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    Only Yesterday

    Only Yesterday

    6.8 1933 HD

    On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in...

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    Ladies of the Big House

    Ladies of the Big House

    6 1931 HD

    A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

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    My Pal, the King

    My Pal, the King

    1 1932 HD

    The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.

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    Havana Widows

    Havana Widows

    5.8 1933 HD

    Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

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    The Expert

    The Expert

    6.3 1932 HD

    An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.

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    Night Court

    Night Court

    6.3 1932 HD

    A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.

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    Under-Cover Man

    Under-Cover Man

    4.5 1932 HD

    When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring...

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  • 1935
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    Stone of Silver Creek

    Stone of Silver Creek

    1 1935 HD

    In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the...

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    Son of a Sailor

    Son of a Sailor

    5 1933 HD

    A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.

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    Blood Money

    Blood Money

    7 1933 HD

    The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work,...

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    The Loudspeaker

    The Loudspeaker

    1 1934 HD

    A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazingly, he achieves his ambition, but in the...

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    Bureau of Missing Persons

    Bureau of Missing Persons

    5.6 1933 HD

    Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...

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  • 1937
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    Left-Handed Law

    Left-Handed Law

    4 1937 HD

    An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.

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    Mutiny Ahead

    Mutiny Ahead

    4 1935 HD

    A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.

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    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    7 1934 HD

    A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face...

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  • 1930
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    Up the River

    Up the River

    6 1930 HD

    Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled...

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    Reform Girl

    Reform Girl

    5.5 1933 HD

    A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost...

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    Strictly Dynamite

    Strictly Dynamite

    5.3 1934 HD

    A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

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    Flames

    Flames

    4 1932 HD

    Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat. He then fights a fire in the...

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    Hold Me Tight

    Hold Me Tight

    1 1933 HD

    Newly married sweethearts Chuck Evans and Molly Roberts work at Blair's Department Store and Molly plans to quit to be a stay-at-home wife and...

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