A Certain Cinema
Cornel Wilde in
Shockproof, 1949.
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Originally Posted by austlar1
Regarding Franchot Tone and his toney background. I briefly attended boarding school with Jeff Tone, who was Franchot Tone's son by the woman he left for Payton. I remember once when Franchot Tone visited the school and was an honored lunch guest who was introduced to all the impressionable boys at the school by the headmaster. There was no mention that Mr. Tone had this drawn out and ugly affair with the trollop Barbara Payton. We were left with the impression that Franchot Tone was an aristocratic and wealthy movie star of impeccable background. His son, Jeff, was golden and beautiful. He seemed to have such a glamorous life with homes and parents in NYC and Beverly Hills. Who knew about his agrieved mother and all the scandal!
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Jean Wallace with Franchot...and then Cornel...
Jeff Tone (Thomas Jefferson Tone, who died in 2005) was one of two sons of Franchot and actress Jean Wallace, who was not without her unstable habits--
one suicide attempt with pills and another with a butcher knife when Jeff and his older brother were young--but not the crazy übertramp that Payton was.
(Franchot sure could pick 'em.) Jean seemed to get her act together when she married the thousand-times more attractive Cornel Wilde in 1955 (and who
wouldn't be happy married to him?)...at least until
their bitter divorce 25 years later.
Jean had an alot of different looks over the years....
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