Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career
- ISBN-10
- 0786423668
- ISBN-13
- 9780786423668
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-11
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Authors
- Lynn Kear, John Rossman
Description
"Francis's biography is the heart of this book, her family background and her upbringing by a vaudevillian actress mother. The story of her career and romantic pursuits with comments from the media and her diaries, are supplemented with photographs. A chronology gives dates of theater openings, film releases, marriages, television and radio appearances, births and deaths"--Provided by publisher.
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