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Married. Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 36, ex-husband of Joan Crawford; and Cinemactress Jean Wallace (Walasek), 18, Hollywood newcomer...
...passionate love-me-or-I-die flicker you might expect. It isn't even a new version of Hollywood's favorite pastime, the wacky bedroom farce. Instead, it's a long, drawn-out version (without technicolor, too) of an eighteenth century Fitzpatrick Travel Talk. Franchot Tone, Carol Bruce, Walter Brennan, and a bunch of others wade wearily through an hour or so of an even wearier script. Waves, shipwrecks, Indians, and cold-blooded villains don't help much, except perhaps to convince you that the picture's point is about as obscure as its title...
...sued Comedian Oliver Hardy for $96,757 income taxes, Victor Mc-Laglen for $6,113, Comedienne Zasu Pitts for $426. // 11 Beauty Connoisseur Earl Carroll sued Paramount for $300,000, charging A Night at Earl Carroll's had done that much damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them...
...Franchot Tone was operated on in a Los Angeles hospital for kidney trouble...
Adopted. By Joan Crawford, 33, ex-wife of Franchot Tone and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: a five-month-old boy, named Christopher, She already had a two-year-old adopted daughter Christina...