Franchot Tone
Birthday: 1905-02-27
Place of Birth: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Biography: Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franchot Tone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Jigsaw
New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murder...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....
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Here Comes the Groom
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orpha...
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Nice Girl?
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built ...
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Dark Waters
Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover ...
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Five Graves to Cairo
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian bord...
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Every Girl Should Be Married
Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Bro...
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Without Honor
Jane, a housewife, is confronted during her daily chores by Dennis, her married lover with whom she ...
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I Love Trouble
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past....
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Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on....
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Dancing Lady
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Tod Newton, the r...
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Phantom Lady
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove he...
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Love on the Run
A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry ...
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Sadie McKee
A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house....
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
In the Northwest Frontier of India, the 41st Bengal Lancers led by the harsh Colonel Tom Stone are h...
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Because of Him
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway...
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His Butler's Sister
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway....
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The Man on the Eiffel Tower
A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime...
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Advise & Consent
Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffin...
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Three Loves Has Nancy
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically invo...
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Suzy
A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive....
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Reckless
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire....
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Midnight Mary
While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the...
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Dangerous
Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut h...
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Quality Street
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson....
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That Night with You
In this musical comedy, a young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a...
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Nobody Runs Forever
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level...
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Her Husband's Affairs
Bill Weldon is an Ad man who craves his wife Margaret's approval of his work, instead he gets constr...
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Moulin Rouge
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. How...
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Gabriel Over the White House
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis...
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Pilot #5
A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With...
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Gentlemen Are Born
A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the ...
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The Girl from Missouri
Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and...
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Today We Live
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get marri...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son a...
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory
A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to t...
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Three Comrades
A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I...
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The Stranger's Return
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she une...
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They Gave Him a Gun
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use....
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The Gorgeous Hussy
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know h...
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The Bride Wore Red
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor....
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No More Ladies
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous....
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The World Moves On
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to ...
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Exclusive Story
A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster be...
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Fast and Furious
Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a ...
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The King Steps Out
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in....
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Straight Is the Way
Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfr...
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Stage Mother
Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls eve...
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The Girl Downstairs
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom ...
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The Unguarded Hour
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man....
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Man-Proof
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he...
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Love Is a Headache
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publici...
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Between Two Women
Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of...
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Uncle Vanya
A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chek...
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One New York Night
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room ...
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True to Life
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents ...
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Lost Honeymoon
An American architect learns he has two children whom he fathered during his military service....
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See How They Run
Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the exi...
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The Hour Before the Dawn
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacif...
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The Wife Takes a Flyer
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland a...
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
A study of the Group Theatre, a company that changed the face of American drama. The Group was found...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winni...
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She Knew All the Answers
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't appro...
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Shadow Over Elveron
A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged...
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Twelve Angry Men
Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series....
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The Wiser Sex
A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been fra...
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This Woman Is Mine
Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Ma...
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Bitter Heritage
A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to re...
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Witchcraft: The Doll in Brambles
Madame Tirelou is a witch who will not allow her daughter Marie to marry her one true love Louis. Th...
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The Little Foxes
A tale of greed, one-upmanship, family distrust, abuse, apathy, and lost love, set in the deep south...
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That's Entertainment, Part II
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time includi...
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The Romance of Celluloid
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the m...
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How to Make a French Dish
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is t...
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In Harm's Way
A Naval officer, reprimanded after Pearl Harbor, is later promoted to Rear Admiral and gets a second...
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's e...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...
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Too Old for Dolls
Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal danc...
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Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 6
Fernand Gravey and Danielle Darrieux arrive in Hollywood; the Ritz Brothers achieve immortality, lea...
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Rendezvous in Black
Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by k...
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