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...occupants. The narrative, which skips the saga of Pitcairn's Island entirely for Tahiti love interest, still contains enough material for at least three films. These faults are indigenous to the historic material used. The picture has few others. It is superbly photographed by Arthur Edeson. Franchot Tone as Byam, Clark Gable as Christian and Dudley Digges as the ship's doctor perform brilliantly in the cast that supports Laughton. A superb story magnificently told. Mutiny on the Bounty will undoubtedly compensate its makers in box-office cash and artistic credit for the trouble which it caused them...
...Married. Franchot Tone. 30, cinemactor, son of President Frank Jerome Tone of Carborundum Co. (see p. 34 ); and Joan Crawford (Lucille Le Sueur Cassin). 31, cinemactress, divorced wife of Nicholas Ullman Jr. (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.); in Englewood Cliffs...
Many a proud father, hearing that his son is to be honored at Commencement for achievement in college, journeys thither to witness the salute. Last week Cinemactor Franchot Tone, hearing that his father was to be honored for achievement in science and industry, journeyed to Washington to attend a dinner of the Electrochemical Society. There he was joined by his brother Frank Jerome ("Jerry"), Carborundum Co. sales executive, onetime Cornell baseballer. There Franchot and Frank saw their father, Carborundum Co.'s President Frank Jerome Tone, 67 this week, receive $1,000 and the Edward Goodrich Acheson medal "for outstanding...
...their peers saw the opening. newspaper critics agreed that A Mid-summer Night's Dream was "exquisite." '"dazzling," ''magnificent," "of extraordinary beauty." In Manhattan, where so many reviewers attended the first night that the gala premiere for celebrities had to be held a night later, Franchot Tone and Joan Crawford held up Broadway sidewalk traffic for ten minutes and critics were equally bedazzled...
Last year Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought Mutiny on the Bounty by James Norman Hall & Charles Nordhoff (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932). Last spring production started with Charles Laughton for Bligh, Clark Gable and Franchot Tone for sailors, San Miguel Island, 35 miles off Santa Barbara, for Pitcairn Island and a $15,000 barge with $50,000 worth of equipment for the Bounty. As unfortunate as her predecessor, the cinema Bounty last month broke a towrope, drifted out to sea with a watchman on board, remained lost for three days...