La femme traquée

Original title: I Found Stella Parish

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6.7/10

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A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.

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A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.

Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
Writers
- Casey Robinson
- John Monk Saunders
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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

623

YOUR RATING

Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
Writers
- Casey Robinson
- John Monk Saunders
Stars

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Kay Francis

Stella Parish

Ian Hunter

Keith Lockridge

Paul Lukas

Stephan Norman

Sybil Jason

Gloria Parish

Jessie Ralph

Nana

Barton MacLane

Clifton Jeffords

Eddie Acuff

Dimmie

Joe Sawyer

Chuck
(as Joseph Sawyer)

Walter Kingsford

Reeves

Harry Beresford

James

Robert Strange

Jed Duffy

Harry Allen

Driver to Steamship
(uncredited)

Brandon Beach

Theatre Patron
(uncredited)

William A. Boardway

Theatre Patron
(uncredited)

Ward Bond

Roman Soldier in Play
(uncredited)

Harlan Briggs

Theater Manager
(uncredited)

Elsa Buchanan

Stella's Maid
(uncredited)

Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Erik in Play
(uncredited)

Director
- Mervyn LeRoy
Writers
- Casey Robinson
- John Monk Saunders
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Trivia
There was a widely-held belief that a young man in a wig and period costume appearing in a scene with Kay Francis in "I Found Stella Parish" was a young Errol Flynn. This was the chained male prisoner standing to the left of an all-white-clad Kay Francis on stage as she is giving her act IV speech near play finale. As reported by Rudy Behlmer in the March 1970 issue of "Films in Review" the writer and his collaborators, Clifford McCarthy and Tony Thomas, concluded that the Flynn lookalike was actually Ralph Bushman (a.k.a. Francis X. Bushman Jr.).

Goofs
In 1 scene, both Gloria and Keith ask for a cookie. Since both were English, they really would have asked for a biscuit.

Quotes
Stella Parish, an alias of Elsa Jeffords, aka Aunt Lumilla Evans: We Americans are a fun-loving people; we pay most anything just to look at a freak. That's what I am now--a freak--a headline. I'm hot stuff. The public will eat me up, and I'll make 'em pay for it.

Connections
Featured in Comet Over Broadway (1938)

Soundtracks
The Pig and the Cow (and the Dog and Cat)
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Played by Kay Francis on the piano
Sung by Sybil Jason

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Featured review

8/10

Woman of mystery

Kay Francis is at the height of her screen career and in the title role of I Found Stella Parrish. She's a celebrated actress over in the United Kingdom who right after opening in a play to rave reviews suddenly vanishes.

Reporter Ian Hunter goes on the trail. Her producer Paul Lukas has billed her as a'woman of mystery so there's no real background. But with that voice, she's an American. Ian crosses the pond and on the same ship.

It's the usual story he falls for her, but the story comes first. After that it's who does she get in the end?

Also in the picture is a menacing Barton MacLane who is the source of her troubles. They had some history back in the day that Hunter painstakingly digs out. He's only on briefly, but he is scary.

Francis has some good scenes with her daughter Sybil Jason who's origins remain discreet as per The Code.

Francis runs a whole gamut of emotions in this film. One of her best performances.