ACTOR

Kay Francis

1905 - 1968

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Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star and highest-paid actress at Warner Bros. studio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kay Francis has received more than 1,263,481 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Kay Francis is the 5,512th most popular actor (up from 6,278th in 2019), the 8,028th most popular biography from United States (up from 9,392nd in 2019) and the 2,499th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kay Francis ranks 5,512 out of 13,578. Before her are Ivan Bortnik, Samuel Le Bihan, Darío Grandinetti, Walter Janssen, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, and Kim Woo-bin. After her are Eva Mattes, Babita, Lorna Luft, Glenne Headly, Rakhee Gulzar, and Katrin Sass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Kay Francis ranks 303. Before her are Erich Borchmeyer, László Papp, Robert Newton, John Peters Humphrey, Ashley Montagu, and Ernst Stueckelberg. After her are Fernand Rigaux, Louis Armand, Mario de las Casas, Lev Kassil, Maria Vierdag, and Hans Scherfig. Among people deceased in 1968, Kay Francis ranks 215. Before her are Herbert Copeland, Giuseppe Enrici, Pietro Pastore, Luis Brunetto, Nikolai Stepulov, and Ichiya Kumagae. After her are Armand Blanchonnet, Fedde Schurer, Diógenes Lara, Sándor Gombos, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, and Oscar Kreuzer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kay Francis ranks 8,028 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert Yerkes (1876), A. P. Hill (1825), Lyle Mays (1953), Robert Ridgway (1850), Derek Sherinian (1966), and Adam McKay (1968). After her are Nelson W. Aldrich (1841), Helene Madison (1913), Gerald R. Molen (1935), Richard Hell (1949), James Waddell Alexander II (1888), and Bill O'Reilly (1949).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Kay Francis ranks 2,499. Before her are Ralph Meeker (1920), Jenna Ortega (2002), James Ransone (1979), Joe Roberts (1871), John Shea (1949), and Laura Leighton (1968). After her are Lorna Luft (1952), Glenne Headly (1955), Heather O'Rourke (1975), Walton Goggins (1971), Gwen Verdon (1925), and Duane Jones (1937).

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