Kay Francis (January 13 1899 – August 26 1968) was an American actress who, after a brief beginning on Broadway in the 1920s, moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936.

Left most of her $1 million estate to train dogs at Seeing Eye, Inc.

Birth year has been in speculation for some time, with sources stating the year as anywhere between 1899-1908. Studio records (which occasionally were used to her detriment when the studio got mad at her) reflect the year of birth as 1899. However, her listing in the U.S. Census taken in April 1910, when she was living at a convent school, gives her age as five years.

Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 6766 Hollywood Blvd.

Because of a speech impediment, she was known around the Paramount lot as "the wavishing Kay Fwancis."

Was one of the many stars labeled "box office poison" in an article published in The Hollywood Reporter in 1938.

After divorcing Kay, her husband James Dwight Francis married Lesley Frost, the daughter of poet Robert Frost (I).