Franchot Tone is a Acteur, Producteur and Réalisateur American born the February 27th 1905 with Niagara Falls, New York (the United States), deceased the September 18th 1968 with New York (New York).

Biography

Born Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Thunders , it is the junior by Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, president of Company Carborundum, and his wife, Gertrude Franchot. Of Québécois ascent , Irish, English and Basque, it was related to the Irish revolutionist Theobald Wolfe Tone.

Ton studied with the Université Cornell where he was President of the Club Dramatic and elected with the Sphinx Head Society. It gave up the family company for a career of actor to the theater. After the diploma he moved with Greenwich Village, New York, and obtained its first role with Broadway in the production of The Age off Innocence assembled in 1929 by Katharine Cornell.

The following year it joined The Theater Guild and plays Curly in their production of Green Grow the Lilacs. (which will become later the famous musical comedy Oklahoma! ) He becomes then a founding member of famous the Group Theater, at the sides of Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Clifford Odets, and others, the majority having worked with The Theater Guild. They were productive and intense years for him: among the productions of the Group he played in (1931), 1931 (1931) and Success Story (1932). Franchot Tone was regarded by the critics as one of the most promising actors of his generation. Gary Cooper appointed Tone the best actor with whom he worked.

This same Tone year was the first of the group to turn the back on the theater to join Hollywood when MGM offered a contract of cinema to him; however he regarded always the cinema as much lower than the theater and remembered with nostalgia his years on the boards. He often supported Group Theater financially (and scene remade occasionally). Its beginnings with the screen took place in 1932 in The Wiser Sex . It becomes famous in 1933, when it made seven films in only one year, of which After us the flood , written by William Faulkner, where it met his future wife Joan Crawford, Bombshell , with Jean Harlow (with whom it will play in three other films), and success the Swirl of the dance , still with Crawford and Clark Gable. In 1935, undoubtedly its year of the chance, it plays in Revolted of Bounty (for which it was named with the Oscar of the best actor), Three lancers of Bengal and the Intruder vis-a-vis Bette Davis, with which one lent a connection to him.

It Marie the October 11th 1935 in the New Jersey with the actress Joan Crawford; they will divorce in 1939 after having made seven films together: After us the flood (1933), the Swirl of the dance (1933), Sadie McKee (1934), No More Ladies (1935), The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Coils One The Run (1936) and the Unknown factor of the de luxe hotel (1937).

It will marry and divorce with three other recoveries: with the mannequin become actress Jean Wallace (1941– 48, two wire; she will marry then Cornel Wilde), the actress Barbara Payton (1951– 52) (a transitory love which will be worth to him a famous brawl with the actor Tom Neal), and finally with the young actress Dolores Dorn (1956– 59).

He worked regularly during the Années 1940 without becoming a star of foreground: its role is often limited to that of the rich person playboy and very few films of this period are notable. Exception being Five secrecies of the desert (1943), the third film of the young person Billy Wilder, a brilliant history of war and espionage, where it divides the poster with Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim which incarnates the German general Erwin Rommel.

In the Années 1950 it works for the Télévision and turns over to Broadway. It reappears with the screen in the medical series Ben Casey in 1965 - 1966 in the role of the superior of Casey. He plays then in the only film which he will carry out and produce, the adaptation of the part Uncle Vania of Anton Tchekhov (1957) with its wife Dolores Dorn.

Large smoker, it dies of a lung cancer with New York at 63 years. Joan Crawford, moved by the fate by its ex-husband during his disease, would have dealt with it in its residence to deal with him. According to a visitor who asked which was the man in the wheel chair, Crawford answered: " Him? That' S Franchot". Its body was incinerated and its ashes were dispersed.

Franchot Tone has a star with its name on the Hollywood Walk off Famed with the 6558 Hollywood Boulevard.

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