Kay Francis Autographs
Kay Francis (born Katharine Edwina Gibbs; January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star and highest-paid actress at Warner Bros. studio. She adopted her mother's maiden name (Francis) as her professional surname.
Katharine Edwina Gibbs was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory (present-day Oklahoma), in 1905, the only child of Joseph Sprague Gibbs and Katharine Clinton (née Francis), an actress. Wed in 1903, her parents divorced in 1909 when Kay's mother left her alcoholic father and took Kay with her.
Her mother had been born in Nova Scotia, Canada, and was a successful actress and singer on a hardscrabble theatrical circuit under the stage name Katherine Clinton. Kay often traveled with her mother. Kay attended Catholic schools when it was affordable, becoming a student at the Institute of the Holy Angels at age five. After also attending Miss Fuller's School for Young Ladies in Ossining, New York (1919) and the Cathedral School (1920), she enrolled at the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City. While there she did nothing to discourage the assumption that her mother was Katharine Gibbs, the pioneering American businesswoman who had established the Gibbs chain of vocational schools.
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Traded items with a signature of Kay Francis
The most expensive item with a signature of Kay Francis (Kay Francis Striking Very Rare Early Autographed Oversize 10/13 Photo 30s) was sold in July 2025 for $779.99 while the cheapest item (Kay Francis Actress 1930s Signed Card) found a new owner for $0.99 in May 2015. The month with the most items sold (3) was January 2020 with an average selling price of $25.00 for an autographed item of Kay Francis. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2022 with $91.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $9.99 was September 2010. In average, an autographed item from Kay Francis is worth $46.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Kay Francis were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Kay Francis & others signed Theatre Program 1949 Actress | $45.00 |  |
| Kay Francis & others signed Theatre Program 1949 Actress | $45.00 | |
 | Kay Francis Actress vintage signed page Film Noir 1930’s-40’s | $30.00 | |
| Kay Francis Actress vintage signed page Film Noir 1930’s-40’s | $30.00 | |
| Kay Francis signed actress actor autograph playbill Fayetteville NY | $114.50 | |
| Kay Francis signed actress actor autograph playbill Fayetteville NY | $114.50 | |
| Kay Francis signed actress actor autograph playbill Fayetteville NY | $47.00 | |
| Kay Francis signed actress actor autograph playbill Fayetteville NY | $47.00 | |
| Kay Francis Signed Vintage Photo 1930’s | $50.00 | |
| Original Signed Autographed Cut Kay Francis Comet over Broadway Died 1968 | $91.00 | |
| Original Signed Autographed Cut Kay Francis Comet over Broadway Died 1968 | $91.00 | |
| Vintage Kay Francis Autographed 8x10 Black and White Photograph | $49.95 | |
| Vintage Kay Francis Autographed 8x10 Black and White Photograph | $49.95 | |
 | Vintage Mandalay Actress: Kay Francis Signed Playbill | $89.99 | |
| Vintage Mandalay Actress: Kay Francis Signed Playbill | $89.99 | |
