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...Minister to Spain. After his death Peggy married an Italian dancing master who stole her money and eloped with her granddaughter. Her old age was desolate. In the 1936 motion picture, The Gorgeous Hussy, Peggy's part was played by Joan Crawford; John Henry Eaton's by Franchot Tone...
Nice Girl? resembles a shiny Rolls-Royce that won't run. Carried in its cast is a selection of Hollywood's most polished performers-'Robert Benchley, Walter Brennan, Helen Broderick, Franchot Tone. But their efforts to keep the aimless, insipid Richard Connell-Gladys Lehman screen play afloat are like the haphazard courage of doomed men. Benchley as a widower highschool principal with three lightheaded daughters (Deanna, Anne Gwynne, Ann Gillis) looks as if he were trying to get by unrecognized. Since there is no observable plot, the rest of the characters just meander around the Benchley household...
...those who would like to have permanently on hand Franchot Tone's recitation of England, My England; or John Barrymore's Hamlet soliloquy; or Joe E. Brown's story about the cat and the drunken mouse, Specialty Record Co. offers these and other movie star recordings...
Divorced. Actor Franchot Tone,34; by Cinemactress Joan Crawford, 32, who in 1934 divorced Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.; after sentimental get-togethers while the final decree was pending; in Los Angeles...
...again started dickering; to one of them according to Broadwayfarer Leonard Lyons, Hemingway angrily replied: "Fifth Column, sixth draft, seventh producer, eighth refusal." Soon after, he agreed to let Hollywood Writer Benjamin Glazer rewrite the play. Last December the Theatre Guild announced that it would produce the play, with Franchot Tone as lead. Last week (with the financial assistance of Billy Rose) The Fifth Column opened at last on Broadway...