Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
8/31/1906
Place of Birth
Temple, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Noel Frances SweeneyNoel Frances
Noel Francis
Biography
Noel Francis was born in Temple, Texas in 1906. By age 20 she was appearing in the Ziegfeld Follies, working opposite the comedy team of Wheeler and Woolsey. Eventually Fox scouts noticed her and in 1929 she was signed to a Hollywood contract. Because of her Follies background, Fox intended to develop Noel as a musical and dance star. Unfortunately, musicals were on the wane at the time (they did rebound) and her contract was dropped. Luckily, she was picked up by Warner Brothers, and featured in a number of films that had her portraying the tough talking, sassy female connected to gangsters, ...
Known For
Smart Money
as Marie
Night Court
as Lil Baker
Mutiny Ahead
as Mimi
Blood Money
as Red's Girlfriend (uncredited)
The Expert
as Daisy
So Big!
as Mabel
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Alice Crane
Manhattan Tower
as Marge Lyon
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
as Linda
Only Yesterday
as Letitia
Strictly Dynamite
as Lady Waiting in Georgie's Lobby (uncredited)
Good Dame
as Puff Warner
Up the River
as Sophie (uncredited)
Blonde Crazy
as Helen Wilson
Havana Widows
as Gladys Gable (uncredited)
Son of a Sailor
as Queenie
Imitation of Life
as Mrs. Eden (uncredited)
Ladies of the Big House
as Thelma
Under-Cover Man
as Connie
My Pal, the King
as Princess Elsa
Career Timeline
1934
1933
Son of a Sailor
as Queenie
Havana Widows
as Gladys Gable (uncredited)
Blood Money
as Red's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Only Yesterday
as Letitia
Bureau of Missing Persons
as Alice Crane
The Important Witness
as Ellen Kelly
Hold Me Tight
as Trudie Holmes
Reform Girl
as Lydia Johnson