Would say goddammit when she messed up

Adrienne Morrison gave her a little stuffed dog. Lay named it Huggles and it was her constant comapnion

Had a teddy bear, which was her good luck charm

According to her April 23, 1922, the seventeen year old Kay wrote "I am no longer a virgin though I have never slept with a man"

She made sixty-eight films in seventeen years.

After a date with screenwriter/director Delmar Daves she is reported to have said, "Christ, he`s a good lover... my God, all hell broke loose. He came in his trousers."

Once, years after her heyday, Kay encountered her former Warner Bros. rival, Bette Davis. When Bette asked why Francis had tolerated such abuse from Jack L. Warner, Kay responded, "I didn`t give a damn. I wanted the money." Davis commented, "I didn`t. I wanted the career."

Kay`s mother was scarcely part of her daughter`s life, and on the rare occasion when she came to visit, she was kept under wraps and never allowed to visit her daughter at the studio.

Kay was married four times. All her marriages ended in divorce.

She was born on Friday the 13th, 1905.

Many found her lisp-- she had difficulty pronouncing the letter r properly-- charming. However, because of this speech impediment, she was known around the Paramount lot as "the wavishing Kay Fwancis." Her speech defect would in time become celebrated (her scripts were typed with rolling r`s).

Kay had a tremendous influence on style trends. Women waited for the next Kay Francis vehicle before planning their season`s wardrobe.

She formed a backgammon foursome with Jessica Barthelmess, Beatrice Stewart and Dorothy Di Frasso.

On her attempt at being domestic during her first marriage (to James Dwight Francis), Kay said, "I hated every dust rag I owned and took a very hearty and very personal dislike to every egg I fried and every potato I boiled."

After a 1934 date with Maurice Chevalier she wrote in her diary, "Maurice for dinner. Swell evening. Very exciting, discussing about lesbians and a threesome. Not practical, I`m afraid."

Elsa Maxwell rated her among the best party-givers in Hollywood. She once had the entrance to a restaurant converted into the prow of a ship, and arriving guests were obliged to slide down a gangplank into a ballroom decorated with nautical devices.

Kay was nicknamed Hetty Green, a reflection of her tight-fistedness.

Claimed that her husband, Kenneth MacKenna, nagged and harassed her, ridiculed her choice of friends and style of dress, and cast aspersions on her acting ability.

Her pre-movie career included work as a real estate broker and public relations woman.

Was first noticed on the Broadway stage.

Years after she was washed up in Hollywood, she laughed about climbing into a taxi to be told by the driver that he hated her. "Nothing personal," he added. "But when I wanted to see Tom Mix, Ma`d drag me to see you `n` George Brent."

She was the favorite actress of caricaturist James Montgomery Flagg.

She claimed that during her entire career she had seen only one close-up of herself that she considered beautiful and even that was achieved by illusion. "In One-Way Passage cameraman Bob Kurle had taken so much pains, shifting the camera fifty different ways, experimenting with light and shadow until it was beautiful," she said. "When I saw that, I felt the one pand of pure pleasure I`ve ever experienced when I`ve looked at myself on the screen."

Her customary breakfast at the studio was a ham sandwich, a pickle and ice cream.

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

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

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

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

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.

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