Word: franchot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delight and two other recent pictures, was signed to a three-year contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mickey's home lot. Salary: $100 a week, $25 more than he was earning at the Follies. Promptly assigned a bit as a stagehand in Fast and Furious with Franchot Tone and Ann Sothern, Joe Yule modestly remarked: "My ambition is to be as much of a success in the movies as I was on the stage...
Divorced. Cinemactress Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille le Sueur), 33; from Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 34; at last, after the judge had refused to grant a "proxy" divorce, required Mrs. Tone's appearance "in person"; in Los Angeles...
...their "proxy" divorce hearing in Los Angeles, Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone met at Manhattan's swank "21," embraced tearfully, dined together, later danced fervidly together at a night club. Next morning Judge Benjamin Scheinman denied Actress Crawford's deposition charging Husband Tone with "extreme cruelty." Said the judge: "The courts in this State look with disfavor on mail-order divorces...
...Hollywood divorce suit of the week: Joan Crawford v. Franchot Tone...
Back on Broadway for the first time after six years in Hollywood, Franchot Tone-an original member of The Group Theatre-proved nimble in his gangster role, but too suave and lacking in guts...