I Found Stella Parish

1935
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1h 25m

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6.7/10

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Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Sybil Jason, and Paul Lukas in I Found Stella Parish (1935)

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
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

624

YOUR RATING

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

See production info at IMDbPro

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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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She found a reason to go on

I Found Stella Parish masterfully engages the viewer. It is very stylized hokum, but yet it is sincere and rather poignant. Kay Francis plays an actress with a secret past that involves having given birth to a child out of wedlock. Taking a break from her stage career, she decides to focus on her role as a mother and travels incognito with her daughter, played by Sybil Jason. It's a nice bit of casting, and their performances nicely complement each other.

Three years later, Warners would reunite Francis and Jason on screen in Comet Over Broadway. Once again, they are mother and daughter, and once again Miss Francis is an actress.

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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