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name: "Noel Francis"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "31 August 1906"
died: "30 October 1959"
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average_as: "actor"
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# Noel Francis

Actor. Born 31 August 1906 in Temple, Texas, USA. Died 30 October 1959.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 31 August 1906, Temple, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 30 October 1959
- **Also known as:** Noel Frances Sweeney, Noel Frances
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Francis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19282115, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290271/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/104800

## Biography

Noel Francis (born Noel Frances Sweeney) was an American actress of stage and screen. Born in Temple, Texas, on 31 August 1906, she began her career on Broadway in the mid-1920s as a Ziegfeld girl in the *Ziegfeld Follies of 1925* and appeared in other productions including *Rio Rita*.

She moved to Hollywood around 1929 after signing with Fox, initially for musical roles, but was dropped when demand for musicals declined. She then worked at Warner Bros., appearing in supporting parts as tough-talking characters in films such as *Blonde Crazy* (1931) and *Smart Money* (1931). Her most noted performance was as Linda in *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932).

By the mid-1930s her roles became smaller. She made a brief return to Broadway in 1935 and appeared in a few B-films before retiring after westerns with Buck Jones in 1935 and 1937. She died in Los Angeles on 30 October 1959.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), Fi1m 85, as Linda — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-a-fugitive-from-a-chain-gang.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sudden Bill Dorn* (1937), as Lorna Kent
- *Left-Handed Law* (1937), as Betty Golden
- *Stone of Silver Creek* (1935), as Lola
- *Mutiny Ahead* (1935), as Mimi
- *The White Cockatoo* (1935), as Elise
- *Imitation of Life* (1934), as Mrs. Eden (uncredited)
- *Fifteen Wives* (1934), as Ruby Cotton
- *The Loudspeaker* (1934), as Dolly
- *Strictly Dynamite* (1934), as Lady Waiting in Georgie's Lobby (uncredited)
- *The Line-Up* (1934), as Mabel Martin
- *Good Dame* (1934), as Puff Warner
- *What's Your Racket* (1934), as Mae Cosgrove
- *Son of a Sailor* (1933), as Queenie
- *Havana Widows* (1933), as Gladys Gable (uncredited)
- *Blood Money* (1933), as Red's Girlfriend (uncredited)
- *Only Yesterday* (1933), as Letitia
- *Bureau of Missing Persons* (1933), as Alice Crane
- *The Important Witness* (1933), as Ellen Kelly
- *Hold Me Tight* (1933), as Trudie Holmes
- *Reform Girl* (1933), as Lydia Johnson
- *Under-Cover Man* (1932), as Connie
- *Manhattan Tower* (1932), as Marge Lyon
- *I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang* (1932), as Linda — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-a-fugitive-from-a-chain-gang.md)
- *Guilty as Hell* (1932), as Julia Reed
- *Night Court* (1932), as Lil Baker
- *Flames* (1932), as Pat
- *So Big!* (1932), as Mabel
- *My Pal, the King* (1932), as Princess Elsa
- *The Mouthpiece* (1932), as Miss DeVere
- *The Expert* (1932), as Daisy
- *Ladies of the Big House* (1931), as Thelma
- *Blonde Crazy* (1931), as Helen Wilson
- *Smart Woman* (1931), as Peggy Preston
- *Smart Money* (1931), as Marie
- *Bachelor Apartment* (1931), as Janet
- *Up the River* (1930), as Sophie (uncredited)
- *Rough Romance* (1930), as Flossie
- *New Movietone Follies of 1930* (1930), as Gloria de Witt

## Gallery

- ![Noel Francis](https://film.one/media/person/1226187/gallery-2f9b20cc9a64.jpg) Noel Francis — Elmer Fryer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Noel_Francis_Photoplay1031.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Noel Francis](https://film.one/media/person/1226187/gallery-bcdc9a49cea1.jpg) Noel Francis — Image via TMDB
- ![Noel Francis](https://film.one/media/person/1226187/gallery-3a1ae1b013d5.jpg) Noel Francis — Image via TMDB
- ![Noel Francis](https://film.one/media/person/1226187/gallery-095bbb07db9f.jpg) Noel Francis — Image via TMDB

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