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"This new book documents Kay Francis' life and career in considerable
detail....What makes the book truly fascinating...is that the
authors had access to Kay Francis' personal papers....This is a volume
one can admire for its scholarship and love for its revelations."
Anthony Slide
"For ONCE, an author really delves into the roots of a personality
and it seems to 'click into place' with the things that Kay, on and off,
used to tell me and my sister Anita, in between scenes." Sybil Jason,
Warner Brothers child star and author of My Fifteen Minutes
"Kear and Rossman reveal Kay's secrets in their book
by decoding a diary...that detailed her many amorous encounters
with both sexes. [The] book quotes liberally from Francis' diary...so that you feel
their subject is talking directly to you." Dan Callahan, Bright Lights Film Journal
"This may be one of the most complete and interesting
biographies to come out in a very long time..." Dan Scapperotti, Femme Fatales Magazine
"I'm so impressed by the meticulous details.
Lynn and John have certainly done their homework and in the process
helped to preserve Kay for the ages." James Robert Parish
"There's quite a lot of juicy stuff in there…This is really Kay finally telling her story
to the world. There is also a filmography, lots of pictures,
and a complete chronology of Kay's life. This is one movie star
biography that is worth every penny!" Elizabeth Nocera, classicactresses.com
From 1929 to 1946, Kay Francis, movie legend-fashion goddess-millionaire investor-film producer,
appeared in more than sixty films, including at least one classic, Trouble in Paradise.
She acted with the biggest male leads of her day – Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, William
Powell – and earned an astounding $200,000 a year during the Depression.
Kay also developed a legendary reputation for privacy. If they only knew … Her desire for privacy was
essential to her success.
Kay, the personification of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Flaming Youth,"
began keeping a diary in 1922. Compelled to record virtually every intimate encounter,
the long-forgotten, secret diary tells the story of a sexually adventurous woman who lost her virginity
when she was 16 and consequently took on many lovers. She lived a rich, uninhibited bisexual life that included
one-night stands with many of Hollywood's celebrated stars, countless affairs, and carefully hidden abortions.
Her diary, uncovered in a university archive, details Kay's fascinating life and career in New York, Paris,
and Hollywood during the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, and the War Years. Through this diary, as well as
recently declassified FBI files, interviews, and historical archives,
Kay's life has been rediscovered. Much time was spent deciphering Kay's shockingly frank sexual
diary – many of the entries were written in code.
Most of the startling details in this book
are previously unknown. Illustrated with many unpublished photographs,
Kay Francis: A Passionate Life and Career, by Lynn Kear and John Rossman, is the definitive biography on Kay Francis.
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