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...Santa Monica, Calif., after nearly seven years of marriage, Cinemactress Jean Wallace, 25, who used to sing in nightclubs, sued Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 43, who used to be married to Joan Crawford, for divorce. But they planned to fly to Paris this month anyway to play opposite each other in a new movie...
...Bedelia." It's a yarn about a guy who marries when he's in a state of amnesia (a device that is becoming about as common as disguise in Italian opera), and learns that his wife is arriving from England on the eve of his marriage to another girl. Franchot Tone's quiet mugging carries the frail little piece, which includes a number of very, very funny scenes. Best is one in which Tone prepares to retire to bed with a girl who he thinks is his wife, but actually is only a friend. Evidently she is not a very...
...Mexico City to meet, marry and spend a honeymoon with G.I. Guy Madison, who is on leave from the Canal Zone. They have a hard time finding each other and, tied up by legal complications, an even harder time getting married. The hardest time of all is had by Franchot Tone, a U.S. consulate workhorse who is repeatedly required to help them out. In the course of getting helped, Miss Temple transfers her attentions briefly to Mr. Tone, and nearly wrecks his romance with Mexican Socialite Lina Romay...
...Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail for boozing, fought his brother in the street over a girl and ended up with 90 days on the road gang. Columbia Pictures, on complaint of British censors, had to reshoot a twin-bed scene between Franchot Tone and Lucille Ball-with the beds moved a decent twelve inches apart...
Cinemactor Franchot Tone's wife, Jean, publicly pondered a separation. Cozy quote from Jean, by great-hearted Gossipiste Louella Parsons: "It's jealousy. Jealousy is a disease. . . . I can't bear the thought of separating from Franchot, because I love...