Noel Francis Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Noel Francis Trailers
Total trailers found: 36
01 November 1933
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 his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk.
30 April 1932
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
11 June 1931
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
16 September 1933
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work.
12 September 1931
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 pretends to be having an affair of her own.
01 June 1934
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 process alienates everyone around him with his arrogance and egomania.
29 January 1935
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 an American girl, Sue Tally.
21 March 1932
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.
16 September 1931
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
01 December 1932
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
11 May 1934
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
04 June 1932
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
01 March 1935
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
23 November 1934
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 familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
14 April 1935
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 only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek.
29 November 1933
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
15 June 1930
Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
05 August 1932
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 beginning of the film, so there’s no mystery for the audience to solve.
02 December 1932
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 that has been plaguing the police.
17 November 1933
The title refers to the business of affable, ambitious bail bondsman (and politically-connected grifter) Bill Bailey, who, in the course of his work, crosses paths with every kind of offender there is, from first-time defendants to career criminals.
15 April 1931
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
15 July 1934
Shortly after his arrival from South America to New York, Steven Humbolt is found dead in his apartment at the Savoia Hotel.
26 December 1931
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
16 March 1934
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 help her get out of town.
29 May 1932
Brown is a confident young firefighter. He and his buddy become interested in two girls, after saving their cat.
18 November 1933
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
05 March 1932
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
31 March 1937
An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.
09 November 1932
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities.
04 March 1933
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 daughter.
15 July 1933
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 she is arrested for it.
03 April 1932
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
20 May 1933
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 mother.
10 October 1930
Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business.
01 December 1937
Bundy has found gold on the Kent ranch but directs everyone to Ghost Town as he tries to take over the ranch.
04 May 1930
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger).
