Talk:Kay Francis

message: I have removed Kay Francis from the list of lesbian actors.  When it comes to old Hollywood, there are many, many actors and actresses whose sexuality is rather murky.  Not all of these rumours are necessarily true, and I have found little corroborating evidence for Kay Francis beyond the notoriously unreliable Boze Hadleigh.  A biography of Kay was published recently under the title "I Can't Wait to be Forgotten," and it makes no mention of lesbian activity, although it does refer to many torrid affairs with men.  Kay may have "experimented" in the modern 'College' sense during the 1920s, I have no idea, but including Kay on this list would mean adding others of only "rumoured" status, which covers pretty much everybody who's ever been in a movie.  If anyone feels compelled to add her again, please post your sources accordingly, as "Marjorie-Main-heard-a-rumour-she-told-Boze-Hadleigh" is rather dubious.
Looking over the "Lesbian Actresses" as a whole is a rather strange passtime, as many noteworthy actresses are apparently absent (to be found under "bisexual actresses").  This makes the entire business of sorting out which actress goes under which category (if they go under any at all).  Stanwyck, for example, is under "lesbian" probably more because she was a gay icon, despite the fact that Hadleigh's report on her is suspect, with only her heterosexuality provable (she reportedly was very much in love with Robert Taylor and extremely heartbroken when he cheated on her).  Garbo, however, is listed under "bisexual" despite the fact that she was almost exclusively lesbian.
I realize now that I'm in way over my head.  Someone, somewhere, should come up with a standard of determining what merits inclusion into which category, because otherwise, the whole thing's just a mess.   Wencer 03:45, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: All three of the sources we use say she was born 13 January 1899, yet the article says she was born 13 January 1905.  Apparently her parents didn't marry till 1903, but there have always been plenty of born-out-of-wedlock celebrities in Hollywood.  I'm changing the birth year.  --  JackofOz (talk) 03:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the BFI database, she appears aged 34 on the 1930 census. Crisso (talk) 21:20, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Year of birth

message: http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/52/kay.htm has more material and references another biography. J S Ayer (talk) 02:54, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Source 

message: I added the film "Dr. Monica", from 1934, to the list of Kay's features.  Elsquared (talk) 05:25, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  film added to filmography 

message: I'm curious to know whether Francis only mispronounced her R's, or L's too. Most sources only say about the rhotacism; however, some of them (like "Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career") claim that her L's were also pronounced as W's. --85.118.226.35 (talk) 10:02, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did she have a problem with L's? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article says, quote, "her ashes were scattered according to her last wishes, how the undertaker sees fit."  This makes no sense.  If it was according to her last wishes, the undertaker's opinion means nothing.  (Their opinion wouldn't matter anyway....it's the estate's executor who's responsible for honoring someone's "last wishes".  The only limitation would be if doing so would violate the law.)  And the cited source simply directs to an online book catalog.  I'm going to check back in a week or so, and unless this sentence is made clearer, I'm going to remove the part about the undertaker.  Elsquared (talk) 23:53, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Question asked, and answered.  Thanks very much for the clarification!   Elsquared (talk) 22:10, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  doesn't make sense 

message: Move all of her marriages and affairs to 'Personal life?
Sure as a recap, but not removing them from article, and for asides that don't flow as part of it. I've updated section along these lines, but removed blockquote from unreliable blog source, also section already is formatted with a quote.Jennablurrs7575 (talk) 23:30, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life 

message: Gaughan, Kimberly (2019). You Go to My Head. (Master's thesis).
:T3g5JZ50GLq (talk) 06:00, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''MFA''  play about ''Kay Francis''