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Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of many successful films and television series throughout his career, such as Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Midshipman Roger Byam in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), starring alongside Clark Gable and Charles Laughton.
He was born as Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the wealthy president of the Carborundum Company, and his socially-prominent wife, Gertrude Van Vrancken Franchot. His maternal great-grandfather was congressman Richard Franchot. Tone was a distant relative of Wolfe Tone (the "father of Irish Republicanism"): his great-great-great-great-grandfather John was a first cousin of Peter Tone, whose eldest son was Wolfe Tone. Tone was of French Canadian, Irish, English, and Basque ancestry.
Actors: Billy Goldenberg (composer), Tom Brocato (miscellaneous crew), Melanie Mayron (actress), Dalene Young (writer), Lee Grant (actress), Angus MacInnes (actor), George Touliatos (actor), John Heard (actor), Dalene Young (actress), Royal Dano (actor), Jeannie Elias (actress), Susan Blakely (actress), Joe Grifasi (actor), Joan Eremin (miscellaneous crew), Fielder Cook (director),
Plot: Based on the fast and frantic life of actress Frances Farmer tracing her life from her childhood in Seattle, through her college years, her flirtation with radical politics, her success in films and the theater, her doomed love affair with Clifford Odets, her physical and mental breakdown, and her ultimate emergence from an institution where she spent five years, to her death from cancer.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, actress, clifford-odets, domineering-mother, drunkenness, filmmaking, frances-farmer, group-theater, mental-illnessA tribute to Franchot Tone's incredible career, this video montage features moments from his film and television performances of the 1930s-1960s. Created by Emily, owner of the Finding Franchot fanblog at www.franchottone.blogspot.com. This video is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only.
Franchot Tone & James Daly - superb acting as muckraking presenter destroys the judge before a live audience.
After World War II, when her best friend dies, an Englishwoman takes two orphaned children in search of their Father in the States. A former U.S. G.I., they find out he is a successful architect, who claims he doesn't remember them, or their Mother.
A local District Attorney investigates a series of murders and uncovers an extremist group.
Edited by Laura - Made for Fun, not Profit **Program Used: Sony Vegas 13 •• Watch in 720p •• Follow me on Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/shoopdancer2504 DESCRIPTION// A tribute to the on-screen and off-screen relationship between Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford. FILMS USED; Today We Live (1933) Dancing Lady (1933) Sadie McKee (1934) No More Ladies (1935) The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Love on the Run (1936) The Bride Wore Red (1937) "Our marriage didn’t last, but we had some wonderful years. I wouldn’t give them back for anything, and we remained friends as long as he lived" - Joan Crawford about her marriage to Franchot Tone. THESE TWO. I wanted to have this done for Franchot's birthday (February 27th) and I ended up finishing it the day after Joan's birthday (March 23rd). Oh well, IT'S...
Music video by Franchot Tone performing Everything's Fine. (c) 2013 PFT Records
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. The latter is killed before he can talk, but, with the help of a showgirl, the detective learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girl friend to enter college after she had stolen $40,000 from the night club where she worked. The detective eventually learns that the husband had killed his wife when he discovered her past in order to avoid a scandal, and had hired the detective to try and frame him for the killing.
Trail of the Vigilantes 1940 Full Length Western Movie **** Director: Allan Dwan **** Stars: Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford. Stars: Tex Ritter . A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang. The videos in my playlists are uploaded by many wonderful people who take a lot of time and effort to make these videos available for us to enjoy. Please let .
Franchot Tone (Love Scenes) with Maureen O'Sullivan, Joan Crawford, Loretta Young, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Anne Baxter, Janet Blair and Jean Wallace.
Suspense "All Hallow's Eve" Original broadcast date: October 28, 1952. In 1880's London, Mr. Markheim stabs to death a pawnbroker whose wealth he has long envied. Markheim says he intends take some of the businessman's riches, marry, and become a saintly man. An otherworldly visitor who knows Markheim intimately informs him that he will never change his evil ways and therefore should kill again. Cast: Franchot Tone, Romney Brent, Francis Compton
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy investigates a series of murders and uncovers an extremist group. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041523/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Jigsaw (1949) Mystery - Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace Stars: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick Two detectives (Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis) try to solve a woman's brutal murder Jean Wallace was the wife of the actor Cornell Wilde.
Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934-35); CBS (1935-54) and NBC (1954-55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30pm, October 14, 1934, on the NBC Blue Network with a production of Seventh Heaven starring Miriam Hopkins and John Boles in a full-hour adaptation of the 1922–24 Broadway production by Austin Strong. The host was the show's fictional producer...
Franchot Tone (You're the reason) video Franchot Tone and co-stars: Grace Moore ("The King Steps Out"), Jean Harlow ("Reckless", "The Girl from Missouri", "Suzy" and "Bombshell"), Bette Davis ("Dangerous"), Mary Robson ("Straight is the Way"), Movita ("Mutiny on the Bounty"), Maureen O'Sullivan ("Stage Mother","Between Two Women"), Una Merkel ("One New York Night"), Virginia Bruce ("Between Two Women"), Peggy Moran ("Trail of the Vigilantes"), Deanna Durbin ("His Butler's Sister", "Because of Him", "Nice Girl"), Carol Bruce ("This Woman Is Mine"), Franciska Gaal ("The Girl Downstairs"), Ann Sothern ("Fast & Furious"), Madeleine Carroll ("The World Moves On"), Joan Bennett ("The Wife Takes a Flyer"), Myrna Loy ("Man-Proof"), Veronica Lake ("The Hour Before the Dawn"), Margaret Lindsay ("Ge...
There aren't any tributes to franchot tone on all of youtube and He definately needs one. His smile is amazing except for when he doesn't show his teeth because then he looks like a turtle. bye!
Following the infamous brawl for her affections between actors Tom Neal and Franchot Tone in Hollywood, actress Barbara Payton went on a multi-city promotional tour for her film, "Drums in the Deep South". While in Durham, NC., Barbara did this five-minute interview with a local radio station. This very rare recording is being shared here for the first time by me, John O'Dowd (Barbara's biographer). I hope you will enjoy hearing the "real" Barbara as much as I do. As you will see, she was a very intelligent and witty person, with a light and playful side to her personality. I especially like her comment at the end of the interview when the announcer asks Barbara if she would come back to Durham sometime and bring Franchot Tone with her. Barbara's response is honest and actually quite char...
This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence. She was born Lucille LeSueur on March 23, 1904 (or 1906) in San Antonio, Texas. Her father soon disappeared and she took the name of her stepfather, calling herself Billie Cassin. When Cassin, too, vanished, Billie did menial work to help her mother a...
Joan Crawford & Franchot Tone at the races (1938). "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
Clip of Franchot Tone's final movie performance as the ailing American ambassador in the 1968 film Nobody Runs Forever (also known as The High Commissioner). This film stars Christopher Plummer (featured with Franchot in this clip) and Rod Taylor and was directed by Ralph Thomas. www.franchottone.blogspot.com
Franchot Tone's introduction on This is the UN: Its Actual Voices record, an audio documentary Franchot narrated in 1950.
Lost Honeymoon is a 1947 American film directed by Leigh Jason. The tag line calls it, "A romantic comedy of amnesia and amore". The working title of the film was Amy Comes Across.
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Dancing Lady (1933)