Word: franchot
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...Hollywood's chambermaids of the press, none picked up more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...
...wife and her maiden aunt, a Miss Fay Redfield of Cloquet, Minn. Barbara had just returned to town for three personal appearances, two in theaters and one before a federal grand jury which was interested in a dope-peddling murder (she had supplied the suspect's alibi). Franchot stepped to Florabel's table...
...Franchot Tone...
...breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony, Crosby pitches charm, song and the pathos of his wards, resorts to conspiratorial shenanigans with the help of his editor (Robert Keith), his would-be father-in-law (James Barton) and Tone's repressed cousin (Alexis...
Said Barbara, when quizzed by the press at her home next day: "It is not true. I haven't seen Tom Neal and I don't want to see him. What's more, I'm gonna marry Franchot." Then Barbara stepped gingerly over Tom Neal's bar bells, still lying in her patio, and tripped off in high good humor. It all seemed to be working out in the best Hollywood tradition. Though the affair had cost her a leading part in a new picture, the publicity was making her such a drawing card that...