Born on this day – Kay Francis:

Actress

January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968

Credits:

Lux Video Theatre (1951); The Prudential Family Playhouse (1950); Wife Wanted (1946); Allotment Wives (1945); Divorce (1945); Four Jills in a Jeep (1944); Between Us Girls (1942); Always in My Heart (1942); The Feminine Touch (1941); Charley's Aunt (1941); The Man Who Lost Himself (1941); Play Girl (1941); Little Men (1940); When the Daltons Rode (1940); It's a Date (1940); In Name Only (1939); Women in the Wind (1939); King of the Underworld (1939); Comet Over Broadway (1938); Secrets of an Actress (1938); My Bill (1938); Women Are Like That (1938); First Lady (1937); Confession (1937); Another Dawn (1937); Stolen Holiday (1937); Give Me Your Heart (1936); The White Angel (1936); I Found Stella Parish (1935); The Goose and the Gander (1935); Stranded (1935); Living on Velvet (1935); British Agent (1934); Dr. Monica (1934); Wonder Bar (1934); Mandalay (1934); The House on 56th Street (1933); I Loved a Woman (1933); Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933); Storm at Daybreak (1933); The Keyhole (1933); Cynara (1932); Trouble in Paradise (1932); One Way Passage (1932); Jewel Robbery (1932); Street of Women (1932); Man Wanted (1932); Strangers in Love (1932); The False Madonna (1931); Girls About Town (1931); 24 Hours (1931); Guilty Hands (1931); Transgression (1931); The Vice Squad (1931); Ladies' Man (1931); Scandal Sheet (1931); Passion Flower (1930); The Virtuous Sin (1930); Let's Go Native (1930); For the Defense (1930); Raffles (1930); A Notorious Affair (1930); Paramount on Parade (1930); Street of Chance (1930); Behind the Make-Up (1930); The Marriage Playground (1929); Illusion (1929); Dangerous Curves (1929); The Cocoanuts (1929); Gentlemen of the Press (1929).

On this day in movie history - King of the Underworld (1939)

King of the Underworld

directed by Lewis Seiler,

written by George Bricker and Vincent Sherman,

based on a story by W.R. Burnett,

was released in the United States on January 7, 1939.

A remake of Dr. Socrates (1935), directed by William Dieterle.

Music by Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

Humphrey Bogart, Kay Francis, James Stephenson, John Eldredge, Jessie Busley, Arthur Aylesworth, Raymond Brown, Harland Tucker, Ralph Remley, Charley Foy, Murray Alper, Joe Devlin, Elliott Sullivan, Alan Davis, John Harmon, John Ridgely, Richard Bond, Pierre Watkin, Charles Trowbridge, Edwin Stanley, Sherwood Bailey, Clem Bevans, Sidney Bracey, Frank Bruno, Nat Carr, Glen Cavender, Edgar Dearing, Ralph Dunn, William Gould, John Harron, Lew Harvey, Herbert Heywood, Max Hoffman Jr., Stuart Holmes, Mickey Kuhn, Al Lloyd, Paul M. MacWilliams, Jack Mower, Jimmy O'Gatty, Paul Panzer, Richard Quine, John J. Richardson, Ann Robinson, Cliff Saum, Janet Shaw, Carl Stockdale, Doc Stone, Charles Sullivan, Lottie Williams, Tom Wilson.