Word: franchot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Died. Franchot Tone, 63, longtime movie star whose off-camera tiffs sometimes overshadowed his considerable acting ability; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Suave son of a wealthy industrialist, Tone moved quickly from lead roles on Broadway to Hollywood, where he made 53 films, including Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. His personal life was littered with four broken marriages and several fights, one of which-against Bit Actor Tom Neal over the affections of Tone's third wife, Barbara Payton, in 1951 -left him with a battered face that required plastic surgery...
...each other as the daughters grow too old to give their father the devotion he so completely dotes on. Leastways I think that's what it deals with. Mr. Burnering is the father, a terribly conceited man whose conceit has been reinforced for years by his worshipful household. John Franchot, who plays him, conveys little more than this conceit and makes no visible attempt to suggest either the age or the world-weariness of his character...
Died. Gail Neal, 29, California tennis-club attendant; of a .45-cal. bullet wound in the head, shortly after which her estranged husband, Actor Tom Neal, 51, the man who hospitalized Franchot Tone ("I was on him like a cat") in their 1951 brawl over Actress Barbara Payton, was booked on suspicion of murder; in Palm Springs...
...long-estranged son (Brandon deWilde) away from the public-relations war mounted by a former Congressman (Patrick O'Neal) and an incompetent admiral (Dana Andrews), then has to send the boy on a fateful attack. Big, tough decisions are made and carried out by such luminaries as Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Stanley Holloway and Henry Fonda...
...them. This, the first of two films to be shown this season, is a story of an international conspiracy involving a crooked cartel and three orphaned children who possess evidence that could destroy it. Called "See How They Run," it stars Austrian Beauty Senta Berger, John Forsythe and Franchot Tone. Color...