- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 31, 1906
- Place of Birth
- Temple, Texas, USA
- Died
- October 30, 1959
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. Rob…
Filmography
movieSudden Bill Dorn
1937 · Lorna Kent
movieLeft-Handed Law
1937 · Betty Golden
movieStone of Silver Creek
1935 · Lola
movieMutiny Ahead
1935 · Mimi
movieThe White Cockatoo
1935 · Elise
movieImitation of Life
1934 · Mrs. Eden (uncredited)
movieFifteen Wives
1934 · Ruby Cotton
movieThe Loudspeaker
1934 · Dolly
movieStrictly Dynamite
1934 · Lady Waiting in Georgie's Lobby (uncredited)
movieThe Line-Up
1934 · Mabel Martin
movieGood Dame
1934 · Puff Warner
movieWhat's Your Racket
1934 · Mae Cosgrove
movieSon of a Sailor
1933 · Queenie
movieHavana Widows
1933 · Gladys Gable (uncredited)
movieBlood Money
1933 · Red's Girlfriend (uncredited)
movieOnly Yesterday
1933 · Letitia
movieBureau of Missing Persons
1933 · Alice Crane
movieThe Important Witness
1933 · Ellen Kelly
movieHold Me Tight
1933 · Trudie Holmes
movieReform Girl
1933 · Lydia Johnson
movieUnder-Cover Man
1932 · Connie
movieManhattan Tower
1932 · Marge Lyon
movieI Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · Linda
movieGuilty as Hell
1932 · Julia Reed
movieNight Court
1932 · Lil Baker
movieFlames
1932 · Pat
movieSo Big!
1932 · Mabel
movieMy Pal, the King
1932 · Princess Elsa
movieThe Mouthpiece
1932 · Miss DeVere
movieThe Expert
1932 · Daisy
movieLadies of the Big House
1931 · Thelma
movieBlonde Crazy
1931 · Helen Wilson
movieSmart Woman
1931 · Peggy Preston
movieSmart Money
1931 · Marie
movieBachelor Apartment
1931 · Janet
movieUp the River
1930 · Sophie (uncredited)
movieRough Romance
1930 · Flossie
movieNew Movietone Follies of 1930
1930 · Gloria de Witt