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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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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.
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]
Her films particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, which often paired her with Franchot Tone and Clark Gable, showed her as a hard-working young woman on the make, able to find love and success thanks to her own intelligence and sheer will power. Looking at these roles only through Crawford’s biography do her skills as a performer, and ...
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Today We Live is a 1933 American pre-Code romance drama film produced and directed by Howard Hawks and starring Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young and Franchot Tone.. Based on the story "Turnabout" by William Faulkner, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on March 5, 1932, the film is about two officers during World War I, who compete for the same beautiful young woman.
Feb 23, 2017 · Joan Crawford and her husband, Franchot Tone, arrive at an event in Los Angeles circa 1938. The man Davis and Crawford fought over was the elegant Franchot Tone, best known today for his co ...
