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Lost Honeymoon is a 1947 romantic comedy starring Franchot Tone, Ann Richards, and Tom Conway that has fallen into the public domain. Following World War II, Johnny Grey (Franchot Tone) is confronted by his abandoned English wife Tillie Grey and their two little children. But Johnny doesn't rem read more

The focus of the 1933 film Stage Mother is exactly what the title suggests: a former performer pushes her only daughter into show business and controls every aspect of her daughter's life. Think of it as an early non-musical Gypsy. Alice Brady and Maureen O'Sullivan star as the mother Kitty and daug read more

  The photograph above makes my heart ache for Jean Wallace. She looks so devastated moments after a court supported Franchot's urging that his son attend The Hill School, which had been a Tone tradition. It probably didn't help matters that her husband Cornel Wilde looks so chummy with e read more

The good news is I recently stumbled across La Bonne Soupe on Youtube. The bad news is I can't understand a word of it. La Bonne Soupe is a 1964 French film that features Franchot in a character part. This foreign film is definitely a departure from the majority of his filmograph read more

Dangerous (1935) is noteworthy to historians because it is the film that won Bette Davis her first Oscar (she would win again for the 1938 film Jezebel). It is one of my favorite films of the 30s and I enjoy watching it often. It has a lot going for it: stellar performances from Bette and Franchot ( read more

Hello fellow Franchot-ers! I just wanted to update you on a few things. First of all, Man-Proof is now on DVD! Warner Archive released it last week and it can be purchased through the online Warner Brothers shop or on Amazon. I wrote about Man-Proof back in May and am definitely adding the DVD to read more

  Source: Ottawa Citizen, May 23, 1959.   This is currently my favorite photo of Franchot. In a flannel shirt and casual hat, a proud Franchot, with his catch of the day, looks so relaxed and completely in his element in the Canadian woods. The caption that accompa read more

Franchot married Jean Wallace on this day in 1941. They were married in Yuma, Arizona in the justice of the peace's chambers and traveled to Palm Springs after the ceremony. Jean was granted a divorce from Franchot in August 1948, but newspapers reported that she still had hopes of a reconciliation. read more

Joan and Franchot in the 1950s. Source: http://joancrawfordaremarkabletalent.tumblr.com Franchot and Joan were granted a divorce in April 1939. They had been married since October 1935 and attached to each other for two years before that. Although some researchers have noted rumors of extra-m read more

On October 11, 1935, Franchot and Joan, although being watched closely by the press, managed to secretly marry in New York. Franchot had been eager to marry Joan for two years. In a 1933 Ottawa Citizen article, Franchot indicated that he would not give up on marrying Joan, that he would propose fore read more

Photo by George Hurrell Franchot Tone had a quiet way of looking at me across a set, a capacity for giving more than a scene required... He was a tonic to me, this remarkable young man with his individuality of thought and imagination, who understood and was very patient with me, whose two hands read more

Bosley Crowther was a famous New York Times film critic who was active from 1940 to 1967.  Respected for his influence on and knowledge of the film industry, Crowther was noted for his direct and sometimes biting film commentary. Crowther's opinion on Franchot and read more

"I let myself get tabbed as a dilettante, a fellow who was just in pictures for the fun of it. Hollywood takes itself seriously, doesn't understand the light touch in connection with a career. The biggest stars in town never have a frivolous thought, never take time out to enjoy a laugh at themselve read more

In a 1942 article in Hollywood magazine, Franchot gave advice to his wife, Jean Wallace, whom he called "eager, alert, intelligent, and suggestible." Here are husbandly words of wisdom from "Old Doc Tone": Mathematically I'm old enough to be Jean's father. But by good fortune it turned ou read more

Source: 1927 Cornell University Yearbook Franchot's senior yearbook from Cornell University sheds some light on his collegiate activities. Above is Franchot's senior photo, taken when he was approximately 22 years old. Franchot's nickname to his classmates was "Pamp". He was a member of Alpha read more

First of all, I must share that I was so pleasantly surprised by the size of Franchot’s role in Moulin Rouge! Because of my mental connection to the modern Nicole Kidman film, I assumed this movie might be a full-out musical and that assumption indicated to me that Franchot would play a wealth read more

From my Instagram account: @franchot_tone_fan Franchot Tone died 47 years ago today after a battle with cancer. He was only 63 years old and had been working steadily in theater, television, and film up until his death. My personal favorite performances of the last ten years of Franchot's life in read more

In his autobiography, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. who was, of course, married to Joan Crawford when she met Franchot Tone on the set of the 1933 film Today We Live, called Franchot “a fine actor from New York.” Fairbanks, Jr. also said: Today we would call Tone a concerned citizen—he read more

Image Source: Amazon.com One of my favorite hobbies is collecting and reading the autobiographies of classic movie stars. Last week, I finished Melvyn Douglas' fantastic autobiography, See You at the Movies. Douglas focuses on his theater work and political activism over the details of his film ca read more

Franchot signing autographs for waitresses at the Sky Chef Restaurant in Denver in September 1951. This photo was apparently taken less than two weeks after the infamous fight between Tom Neal and Franchot over Barbara Payton. Franchot would have just been released from the hospital after receiving read more