Biography: Franchot Tone |
He began acting while a college student, then became president of his school's Dramatic Club. In 1927 Tone began his professional stage career in stock, then soon made it to Broadway. He began appearing in films in 1932, going on to a busy screen... more
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Length: 98min
Using his own money, actor Franchot Tone mounted this courageous film version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. The cast is the same as the one seen in Tone's stage production of 1956, with one exception: Signe Hassso, who'd played Elena on stage, is...
Cast: Frank Capra Bing Crosby Dorothy Lamour
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Comedy
Length: 114min
Here Comes the Groom was the second collaboration between director Frank Capra and star Bing Crosby. Though not as "socially relevant" as previous Capra productions, the film is a thoroughly likeable yarn about a happy-go-lucky newspaperman named Pete...
Cast: Agnes Moorehead
Length: 69min
Also known as Twilight, Without Honor is a tour de force for leading-lady Laraine Day. During a quarrel with her lover Dennis Williams (Franchot Tone), Mrs. Jane Bandle (Day) attacks him with an ice pick. Believing she has killed Williams, she...
Cast: Henry Fonda Marlene Dietrich
Tags: Film Noir Crime Drama Drama
Length: 70min
Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot Tone, Jigsaw is a strange little crime film. Howard Malloy (Tone), a crusading New York assistant district attorney, is dedicated to exposing a group of supposedly patriotic Americans...
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
Cast: Charles Laughton Franchot Tone
Tags: Mystery Police Detective Film
Length: 82min
Though hampered by a small budget that shrank with each shooting day, director Burgess Meredith fashioned a serviceable film version of Georges Simenon's -A Battle of Nerves. Retitled The Man on the Eiffel Tower, the film pits Simenon's analytical...
Tags: Romance Mystery Detective Film
Length: 94min
Private detective Franchot Tone is hired by a prominent politician (Tom Powers) to run a background check on the politician's wife (Lynn Merrick). Meanwhile, another client (Janet Blair) engages Tone to locate her missing sister-in-law. The two...
Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)
Cast: Cary Grant
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 84min
Cary Grant met his future wife Betsy Drake on the set of the appropriately titled Every Girl Should be Married. Grant plays well-known baby specialist Madison Brown, who is Dr. Spock in everything but name. After a chance meeting with headstrong young...
Cast: Shirley Temple Guy Madison
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 74min
Honeymoon stars an attractively grown-up Shirley Temple as Barbara, the sweetheart of a GI corporal named Phil (Guy Madison). Eloping to Mexico City, Barbara discovers that her boy friend, stationed in the Panama Canal zone, is tied up in bureaucratic...
Length: 70min
The second Hollywood-filmed effort from the British-based Eagle Lion company, Lost Honeymoon is a decided improvement on the first (It's a Joke, Son). Franchot Tone plays returning GI Johnny Gray, who knows that he suffered from amnesia while in...
Cast: Lucille Ball Edward Everett Horton
Tags: Comedy Workplace Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 83min
Lucille Ball offers a seminal version of her Lucy Ricardo TV character in Her Husband's Affairs. Ball is cast as Margaret Weldon, the wife of advertising executive William Weldon (Franchot Tone). Though Weldon is successful, Margaret can't help but...
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