Highest rated movie: Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Lowest rated movie: Thirteen Women (1932)
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Looking for reviews of Kay Johnson movies? Cinafilm has a total of 89 reviews across 7 movies.
Movies starring Kay Johnson have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 65%.
Hellzapoppin' - released in 1941 - is Kay Johnson's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 36 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kay Johnson is Thirteen Women - released in 1932 - with a score of 52% based on 7 reviews.
Catherine Townsend "Kay" Johnson (November 29, 1904 – November 17, 1975) was an American stage and film actress. Johnson was signed to a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Cecil B. DeMille following a performance of The Silver Cord at the Repertory Theater in Los Angeles, California. The play was produced by Simeon Gest of the Figueroa Playhouse. Her film debut came in Dynamite (1929), written by Jeanie Macpherson and featuring Charles Bickford and Conrad Nagel. Production was delayed while Johnson recovered from an appendectomy.
She went on to appear in The Ship from Shanghai (1930), This Mad World (1930), Billy the Kid (1930), The Spoilers (1930) with Gary Cooper and Betty Compson, DeMille's Madam Satan (1930), Passion Flower (1930), Capra's American Madness (1932), Thirteen Women (1932), Of Human Bondage (which starred Leslie Howard and Bette Davis), Jalna (1935) and Mr. Lucky (1943). Johnson was cast opposite Warner Baxter in a screen adaptation of Such Men Are Dangerous by Elinor Glyn. The story was adapted to the screen by Fox Film.
Johnson's final film appearance came in the 1954 British film Jivaro (also known as Lost Treasure of the Amazon).
Kay Johnson has acted in films with Vladimir Sokoloff, Don Brodie, Lee Phelps and Louis Natheaux.
Kay Johnson has worked with these film directors: H. C. Potter, Frank Capra, Cecil B. DeMille and Henry Hathaway.
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