Kay Francis

23 films on Best Blurays1 in 4K5 in HD10 in SD7 with no official release

Kay Francis (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 at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress. Some of her film related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Francis,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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1 in 4K

UHD Blu-ray or 4K streaming

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Leading role · Director: Ernst Lubitsch

4K · Excellent

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

A new 4K restoration from a 35mm nitrate print from and a 35mm composite duplicate negative.

Spain Universal Blu-ray is from a very soft DVD-era transfer; caps

Audio Notes:

Criterion 4K Blu-ray is a new transfer by UCLA, with a bit more high end detail

The earlier transfer used on the Spain Universal Blu-ray and MoC DVD is a bit boomy with boosted bass. The 1999 Criterion DVD uses an even earlier transfer with noticable artifacting and less detail.

Additional Info:

Spain Universal Blu-ray has older MoC extra "Kent Jones and Dan Sallitt on Trouble in Paradise" with MoC watermark, and no other extras

4.1

5 in HD

Blu-ray or HD streaming

Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933)

Leading role · Director: Lloyd Bacon

Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Warner Archive Blu-ray sounds heavily filtered

3.3

The Keyhole (1933)

Leading role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

One Way Passage (1932)

Leading role · Director: Tay Garnett

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

3.8

Jewel Robbery (1932)

Leading role · Director: William Dieterle

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

Video Notes:

4K restoration from Original Camera Negative

3.7

Dangerous Curves (1929)

Leading role · Director: Lothar Mendes

Video format: HD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Amazon HD Streaming

10 in SD

DVD, SD streaming, LaserDisc or VHS

Confession (1937)

Leading role · Director: Joe May

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

3.5

Man Wanted (1932)

Leading role · Director: William Dieterle

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 4 DVD

3.3

Girls About Town (1931)

Leading role · Director: George Cukor

Video format: DVD

Sources: filmlinc.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD or Internet Archive

Video Notes:

There are 35mm print available

3.5

Mandalay (1934)

Leading role · Director: Michael Curtiz

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 6 DVD

3.3

The House on 56th Street (1933)

Leading role · Director: Robert Florey

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

3.3

Wonder Bar (1934)

Leading role · Director: Lloyd Bacon

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive DVD

3.1

Raffles (1930)

Leading role · Director: George Fitzmaurice

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB DVD

3.2

Guilty Hands (1931)

Leading role · Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 10 DVD

3.3

The Feminine Touch (1941)

Leading role · Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Region 1 Warner Archive DVD

3.2

Complicated Women (2003)

Small role · Director: Hugh Munro Neely

Video format: SD Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Only available in Youtube source1 or source2 with Spanish burned-in subtitles

Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)

3.5

7 with no official release

Unofficial sources only, no home media, or lost

Dr. Monica (1934)

Leading role · Director: William Keighley

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

No recommendation yet. Suggest one

3.2

Ladies' Man (1931)

Leading role · Director: Lothar Mendes

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Video Notes:

Has 35mm prints

2.9

Cynara (1932)

Leading role · Director: King Vidor

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: harvardfilmarchive.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

There is a Italy DVD but not sure how legit.

Havard Film Archive has a 35mm restoration

3.2

The Virtuous Sin (1930)

Leading role · Directors: Louis J. Gasnier & George Cukor

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Unofficial DVD

Video Notes:

According to Wikipedia, a complete print of this film is held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. However, the UCLA archive's website says the print is too shrunken for projection

3.0