Franchot Tone
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Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He was a leading man in the 1930s and early 1940s, and at the height of his career was know
Tone in 1938
Hollywood Walk of Fame star at 6558 Hollywood Blvd.
June Walker (Laurey Williams), Helen Westley (Aunt Eller Murphy) and Tone (Curly McClain) in the original Broadway production of Green Grow the Lilacs (1931)
Top-billed with a lead role back at MGM studios on a 1937 film poster
Joan Crawford
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Joan Crawford was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion-picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn
Franchot Tone
…director Howard Hawks. The script was first conceived as a WWI buddy film, but the studio executives wanted a vehicle for their popular leading lady Joan Crawford, forcing Faulkner and Hawks to work in the romance between co-stars Gary Cooper and Crawford. Tone was then the romantic male lead in Gabriel Over the…
Crawford in 1939
Crawford in 1925
With John Gilbert in the film Four Walls (1928)
Crawford in 1928