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Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was known for his gentlemanly sophisticate roles, with supporting roles by the 1950s.
Apr 11, 2024 · Academy Award-nominated Henry Hathaway directed. In his A-pictures, Tone usually lost the girl to the male star – Cary Grant, William Powell, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery – but in the 1936 Joan Crawford vehicle The Gorgeous Hussy he did win the girl (even though his role was small). On the set, however, the relationship between boy and ...
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Mar 13, 2017 · Franchot Tone (Bette and Joan) Franchot Tone’s career as an actor may not have survived the test of time (though classic film lovers will remember his Ensign Byam from 1935’s Mutiny on the ...
In 1935, Crawford married Franchot Tone, a stage actor from New York who planned to use his film earnings to finance his theatre group. The couple built a small theatre at Crawford's Brentwood home, and put on productions of classic plays for select groups of friends who lived in the popular Brentwood area like Clark Gable and Charley Chase. [33]
Mar 2, 2017 · The Story Behind Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’s Storied Feud. By Angelica Jade Bastién ... The man in question was actor Franchot Tone, who is a debonair legend in his own right. As a stage ...
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Tone, Franchot (1905-1968)In the succinct words of David Thomson, "Tone was perhaps all that Franchot had—that and Joan Crawford," the first of his four wives. Born the son of a wealthy industrialist in Niagara, New York, and educated at Cornell, Franchot Tone had a distinguished stage career, working with the Group Theater among others.
Franchot Tone. Actor: Dangerous. President of the Dramatic Club at Cornell University, Franchot Tone gave up the family business for acting, making his Broadway debut in "The Age of Innocence". Tone then went into movies for MGM, making his film debut (at Paramount Pictures) in The Wiser Sex (1932). With his theatrical background, Tone became one of the most talented movie actors in Hollywood.
