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...Hollywood divorce suit of the week: Joan Crawford v. Franchot Tone...
...bellicose. But the social message of Irwin Shaw's "Brooklyn fable" is as softly conveyed as a woman's "Yes." The Gentle People is the story of two benevolent middle-aged cronies down Coney Island way who love to fish of an evening. A tough young gangster (Franchot Tone) extorts "protection money" from them. He seduces one man's daughter (Sylvia Sidney). At length he demands their savings. Their patience pushed too far, the outraged cronies decide to drown their tormentor. Once they do, everybody becomes as happy as a clam at high tide...
Back on Broadway for the first time after six years in Hollywood, Franchot Tone-an original member of The Group Theatre-proved nimble in his gangster role, but too suave and lacking in guts...
...addition to the latest March of Time, recently reviewed and recommended by this department, the University's current bill offers two excellent comedies. Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, as two of the loves in "Three Loves has nancy," account for the success of this film and give smooth portrayals of drunken, debonair men about town. Janet Gaynor is cast in the role of Nancy, a wide-eyed little bumpkin who comes to New York, churns her own butter, smiles at strange men and strikes a note of innocence and simplicity in the empty, superficial lives of her aforementioned loves. Although...
...kinds of people give Hollywood the air, but seldom cinemactors. Once in a while a Frances Farmer or Sylvia Sidney has sneaked away to Broadway, without shutting the studio door behind her. But last week Cinemactor Franchot Tone (Three Comrades, They Gave Him a Gun) loudly announced that he was through with "the long hours, the boredom and all the rest" of Hollywood, was going back to Broadway...