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...Women! (by Edward Chodorov) is an engaging comedy about the love affair between a middle-aged psychoanalyst (Franchot Tone) and a Freudian slip of a girl (Betsy von Furstenberg). On his wedding eve, Tone is disconcerted to learn from a new patient that his bride-to-be has a lurid past. A second patient, Anne Jackson, reveals that her embittered movie-star husband has decided to seduce Tone's fiancee to see if the analyst "can take it as well as dish...
...Franchot Tone...
...Boss" railed and ranted through hundreds of rehearsals ("May I remind the cast that the audience usually likes to hear the lines that the author has taken the trouble to write?"), badgered and bludgeoned dozens of gawky students into becoming well-known actors and writers. Among them: Sidney Kingsley, Franchot Tone, William Prince, Dorothy Sarnoff, and Dan Duryea ("Strangely enough, he advised me not to become an actor...
After eight months of rough & tumble marriage, Actor Franchot Tone appeared in a Los Angeles court to plead for a divorce from Cinemactress Barbara Payton. Said Tone: "My wife's hobby is cooking. She wanted to prepare dinners herself." The trouble was, Tone explained, that he would invite people home for one of her dinners and the guests would sit around for hours waiting for her to arrive and start cooking. After a ten-minute hearing, the judge decided Tone had been cruelly treated, and gave him the divorce...
...Hoffman. Of course, most of his worsts, like Alice in Wonderland and Robert Taylor in Quo Vadis, are sitting ducks, but the placing of Mario Lanza under the banner, "biggest argument for stricter immigration laws," is a clever ploy. Lampy shows his baser side only when he calls Franchot Tone "most miscast" for Tone's portrayal of a Boston Brahmin in Here Comes the Groom...