Frances Drake

Frances Drake (born October 22, 1912 in New York City , † January 18, 2000 in Irvine , California , actually Frances Dean ) was an American actress .

Life

Frances Drake moved to Canada with her parents at the age of four, where she completed her education there and in England. In London she performed as a dancer when she took her first steps towards a film career in 1933 - at that time still under her maiden name Frances Dean - and took part in the British productions Meet My Sister and The Jewel . When Paramount Pictures offered her a contract, she returned to the United States in 1934 and shot Bolero, her first Hollywood film with George Raft and Carole Lombard in the lead roles. With Raft, she was also in front of the camera in The Trumpet Blows , also in 1934 . In the romantic comedy Ladies, listen up! , in which she played a switchboard operator who falls in love with the voice of a caller, Cary Grant was her film partner. In Never First Marries , she chanced off the groom, Robert Montgomery , from Joan Crawford on the day of the wedding .

In Peter Lorre's Hollywood debut Mad Love in 1935, she played the actress Yvonne Orlac , who became the object of desire of the ingenious surgeon Dr. Gogol , whose unrequited love grows to obsession. Reviled by the critics at the time, the film is now considered a classic of the horror film genre. Frances Drake was often used in films as an endangered beauty , including in 1936 in Deadly Rays , this time with Boris Karloff in the role of the driven scientist who goes mad. One of her best-known roles, alongside Mad Love , played Drake in 1935 as Eponine in the film adaptation of Victor Hugo's Die Elenden (Les Misérables) . In the 1939 screwball comedy Top and Bottom , she starred alongside Claudette Colbert and James Stewart .

Frances Drake was from 1939 until his death with Cecil John Howard (1908-1985), a son of Henry Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk, married. After two more films, she ended her acting career in 1942 and withdrew into private life. In 1992 she married again, her second husband also died in 2000.

The actress was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard .

Filmography (selection)

1934: Bolero
1934: The Trumpet Blows
1934: Ladies, listen! ( Ladies Should Lists )
1934: Never Marry First Time ( Forsaking All Others )
1935: Mad Love
1935: The Misery ( Les Misérables )
1935: Blackmailer ( Without Regret )
1936: Deadly Rays ( The Invisible Ray )
1936: Mysterious Passengers ( Florida Special )
1936: And Sudden Death
1937: Midnight Taxi
1937: Love Under Fire
1938: There's Always a Woman
1938: The Lone Wolf in Paris
1939: Above and Above (It's a Wonderful World)
1940: I Take This Woman
1942: The Affairs of Martha

Web links

Commons : Frances Drake - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ According to the Social Security Death Index, other sources such as omovie.com and the obituary in the Guardian name 1908 as the year of birth

↑ Hal Erickson : Film Biography Frances Drake ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , allemovie.com@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.allrovi.com

personal data
SURNAME	Drake, Frances
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dean, Frances
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH	October 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 2000
Place of death	Irvine , California , United States

[1] According to the Social Security Death Index, other sources such as omovie.com and the obituary in the Guardian name 1908 as the year of birth