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Jun 20, 2024 · A chain smoker, Tone passed away on September 18, 1968, in New York City, after losing his battle to lung cancer. His body was cremated, and his ashes were s...
Jun 12, 2024 · Franchot Tone was born on February 27, 1905, in Niagara Falls, New York, United States. His birth geographical coordinates are 43° 5’ 40” North latitude and 79° 3’ 24” West longitude, with an altitude of 187 meters above sea level.
Jun 10, 2024 · In 1987, Bette Davis spoke to journalist Michael Thornton about the love affair between Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone. Davis starred with Tone in 1935's Dangerous and was enamoured with him, and according to Davis, Crawford stole Tone from her, and "did it coldly, deliberately and with complete ruthlessness."
Jun 16, 2024 · At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Jim Hetherton (Franchot Tone) is an assistant headmaster for a private school with a pacifist mentality towards the war and killing in general – stemming from a childhood incident in 1923 when he accidentally shot the family dog when his father, General Hetherton (Henry Stephenson), was teaching him ...
5 days ago · The Hour Before the Dawn places a female spy at the center of the action. Dora Bruckmann is aloof, ever vigilant, and duplicitous. The main problem is Veronica Lake’s cardboard performance. She exudes little screen chemistry with Franchot Tone and might be out of her depth with this drama.
Jun 21, 2024 · Franchot Tone was born in 1905 and was in over 60 films from 1932 to 1968, usually playing the lead or second lead. 2. Slim Pickens and Peter Sellers were in this film about nuclear weapons and the cold war.
Jun 18, 2024 · Crawford was married to the actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1929–33), Franchot Tone (1935–39), and Phillip Terry (1942–46) and to Alfred Steele (1955–59), chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Company. After his death in 1959 she became a director of the company and in that role hired her friend Dorothy Arzner to film several Pepsi commercials.
