Noel Francis
Nascimento : 1906-08-31, Temple, Texas, USA
Morte : 1959-10-30
História
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.
Lorna Kent
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 taken possession. When it appears Bundy is attracted to Lorna, his jealous girl friend has men destroy the ranch and the explosion helps uncover the gold vein.
Betty Golden
An army colonel tries to bring peace to a lawless community.
Lola
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. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde schemers in Warner Bros. gangster films, earns second billing as the casino's equally goodhearted chanteuse.
Mimi
A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.
Elise
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. Along the way the heiress is kidnapped, three murders are committed, a girl appears in two places at once, mysterious persons roam about the old hotel at night and mysteriously disappear, and there is a hidden room without any doors.
Mrs. Eden (uncredited)
Uma viúva em dificuldades e sua filha recebem uma empregada negra e sua filha de pele clara; as duas mulheres iniciam um negócio de sucesso, mas enfrentam problemas familiares, de identidade e raciais ao longo do caminho. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Ruby Cotton
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 investigates the case and although the cause of death is described as apoplexy, Dawes is convinced it as murder, especially after he learns that Humbolt had been married fifteen times.
Dolly
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.
Lady Waiting in Georgie's Lobby (uncredited)
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
Puff Warner
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.
Queenie
A lovesick fool bumbles into espionage and finds a stolen plane.
Gladys Gable (uncredited)
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Red's Girlfriend (uncredited)
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.
Letitia
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. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
Alice Crane
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Ellen Kelly
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.
Lydia Johnson
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.
Connie
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. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
Marge Lyon
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
Linda
Desempregado após o término da Primeira Guerra, Allen torna-se um vagabundo sem dinheiro. Quando assiste a outro homem cometendo um furto, é condenado injustamente a dez anos de cadeia, numa prisão na Geórgia. Lá, é perseguido por gangues e castigado cruelmente por guardas sádicos. Com a ajuda de outro prisioneiro, escapa e parte determinado em busca do sonho que tem de se tornar um engenheiro.
Julia Reed
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. Just the pleasure of watching an intricate cat-and-mouse game, with the murderer one step ahead of his pursuers until the final, tense confrontation.
Lil Baker
A corrupt night court judge tears an innocent young family apart in his efforts to elude a special prosecutor.
Pat
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 apartment building next door to his new girlfriend.
Mabel
A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.
Princess Elsa
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
Miss DeVere
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.
Daisy
An elderly gentleman arrives for an extended stay with his grown son in Chicago.
Thelma
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.
Helen Wilson
Adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
Peggy Preston
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. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.
Marie
Two brothers' trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Janet
A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.
Sophie (uncredited)
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 Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
Flossie
Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
Gloria de Witt
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in love with struggling actress Mary Mason (Miriam Seeger). To prove his love, he hires Mary and the entire company of the show in which she is appearing to entertain his weekend guests at his lavish mansion.
