Frances Drake
Frances Drake ( born October 22, 1912 in New York City; † January 18, 2000 in Irvine, actually Frances Dean ) was an American actress.
Life
Frances Drake moved at the age of four years with her parents to Canada, she completed her schooling there and in England. In London she appeared as a dancer when she in 1933 - at that time under her birth name Frances Dean - first steps towards film career undertook and participated in the British productions Meet My Sister and The Jewel. When Paramount Pictures offered her a contract, she returned in 1934 to the U.S. and turned with Bolero her first Hollywood film starring George Raft and Carole Lombard in the lead roles. With Raft she stood, also 1934, also in The Trumpet Blows front of the camera. In the romantic comedy Ladies, listen! , In which she played a telephone operator who falls in love with a caller's voice, Cary Grant was her co-star. In Marry never the first time she made Joan Crawford on the wedding day the groom, Robert Montgomery, alienated.
In Peter Lorre's Hollywood debut Mad Love she mimed 1935, the actress Yvonne Orlac, which is the object of desire of the brilliant surgeon Dr. Gogol, whose unrequited love increases an obsession. From the criticism of his time reviled, the film is now considered a classic of the horror movie genre. Frequently Frances Drake has been used in films as an endangered beauty, so also in 1936 Fatal rays, this time with Boris Karloff in the role of the driven scientist who falls prey to the madness. One of her most famous roles, in addition to Mad Love, Drake in 1935 starred as Eponine in the film adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (Les Miserables ). In the screwball comedy Above and below it in 1939 was seen on the side of Claudette Colbert and James Stewart.
Frances Drake 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 retired 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.