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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 16:18:26 GMT
Supposedly the Crawford-Davis feud dates back to production on DANGEROUS (1935). Davis was romantically inclined towards her costar Tone, but Crawford snatched him away and married him that year.
In the mid-60s, Crawford paid for Tone's medical care when he was diagnosed with lung cancer which became terminal. I believe she moved him into her Manhattan penthouse apartment to ensure that he was comfortable at the end. Before he died, Tone asked Crawford to remarry him but she declined. The love of her life was her fourth husband Al Steele whom she is buried next to.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 16:33:32 GMT
Supposedly the Crawford-Davis feud dates back to production on DANGEROUS (1935). Davis was romantically inclined towards her costar Tone, but Crawford snatched him away and married him that year.
In the mid-60s, Crawford paid for Tone's medical care when he was diagnosed with lung cancer which became terminal. I believe she moved him into her Manhattan penthouse apartment to ensure that he was comfortable at the end. Before he died, Tone asked Crawford to remarry him but she declined. The love of her life was her fourth husband Al Steele whom she is buried next to.
Two, how funny that the feud (which was enjoyable portrayed several years ago in a TV mini-series) started with the movie we're going to watch today. I don't think Ms. Davis, whose acting talents and career management skills I'm in awe of, was an easy one to be married to either. |
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 16:47:11 GMT
Supposedly the Crawford-Davis feud dates back to production on DANGEROUS (1935). Davis was romantically inclined towards her costar Tone, but Crawford snatched him away and married him that year.
In the mid-60s, Crawford paid for Tone's medical care when he was diagnosed with lung cancer which became terminal. I believe she moved him into her Manhattan penthouse apartment to ensure that he was comfortable at the end. Before he died, Tone asked Crawford to remarry him but she declined. The love of her life was her fourth husband Al Steele whom she is buried next to.
Two, how funny that the feud (which was enjoyable portrayed several years ago in a TV mini-series) started with the movie we're going to watch today. I don't think Ms. Davis, whose acting talents and career management skills I'm in awe of, was an easy one to be married to either.
By the time he did the Wagon Train episode I viewed yesterday, he was single again and he did not marry again. I noticed when I watched WT that he had a perfectly formed face, definitely not rugged or one that showed much aging like other leading men of his generation. After reading about the altercation with Neal, I learned he had extensive plastic surgery to repair his face in the early 50s...so that explains why he still photographs very well on a black-and-white TV western with a limited budget and lack of lighting tricks.
The thing I like about Franchot Tone, and I know this is silly, is that he came from a very wealthy background. So he wasn't hungry like other stars that came up from poverty. He was not obsessed with making a name for himself, or gaining a great fortune from doing movies. And as a result, I think he's a very much understated yet tremendously skilled actor. He was not trying to prove something. He was an actor because it was something he enjoyed doing, not something he had to do. |
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 16:55:46 GMT
One, kudos to Ms. Crawford, that's a first-class move.
Two, how funny that the feud (which was enjoyable portrayed several years ago in a TV mini-series) started with the movie we're going to watch today. I don't think Ms. Davis, whose acting talents and career management skills I'm in awe of, was an easy one to be married to either.
By the time he did the Wagon Train episode I viewed yesterday, he was single again and he did not marry again. I noticed when I watched WT that he had a perfectly formed face, definitely not rugged or one that showed much aging like other leading men of his generation. After reading about the altercation with Neal, I learned he had extensive plastic surgery to repair his face in the early 50s...so that explains why he still photographs very well on a black-and-white TV western with a limited budget and lack of lighting tricks.
The thing I like about Franchot Tone, and I know this is silly, is that he came from a very wealthy background. So he wasn't hungry like other stars that came up from poverty. He was not obsessed with making a name for himself, or gaining a great fortune from doing movies. And as a result, I think he's a very much understated yet tremendously skilled actor. He was not trying to prove something. He was an actor because it was something he enjoyed doing, not something he had to do.
So, apparently, Tone's family money had run out by the 1960s if he needed Crawford to help pay his medical bills. One imagines all those divorces weren't cheap. |
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 17:04:07 GMT
Tone favored starlets/models and Bette wasn't really that type. After divorcing Crawford, he married model turned actress Jean Wallace. She was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood in the 1940s, with whom he had two sons. Then he wed gorgeous Barbara Payton, but that was a disaster because she took up with actor Tom Neal who beat Tone to a pulp and destroyed Tone's face. After the ill-fated union with Payton, Tone married sexy starlet Dolores Dorn, who was almost 30 years younger than him. The marriage to Dorn didn't last either.
By the time he did the Wagon Train episode I viewed yesterday, he was single again and he did not marry again. I noticed when I watched WT that he had a perfectly formed face, definitely not rugged or one that showed much aging like other leading men of his generation. After reading about the altercation with Neal, I learned he had extensive plastic surgery to repair his face in the early 50s...so that explains why he still photographs very well on a black-and-white TV western with a limited budget and lack of lighting tricks.
The thing I like about Franchot Tone, and I know this is silly, is that he came from a very wealthy background. So he wasn't hungry like other stars that came up from poverty. He was not obsessed with making a name for himself, or gaining a great fortune from doing movies. And as a result, I think he's a very much understated yet tremendously skilled actor. He was not trying to prove something. He was an actor because it was something he enjoyed doing, not something he had to do.
So, apparently, Tone's family money had run out by the 1960s if he needed Crawford to help pay his medical bills. One imagines all those divorces weren't cheap.
He was cremated after his death in 1968. But interestingly, his ashes were not interred until just this past summer, in July 2022. He was interred in Canada, which makes me think that one of his sons must live in Canada, since the ashes went to one of them. |
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 19:58:02 GMT
Good afternoon everyone - two minutes to start time.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 19:59:21 GMT
We ready, folks?
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 19:59:21 GMT
Is it finally time? After a week off...
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:00:10 GMT
AS Aerosmith says, "Just Push Play!"
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:01:44 GMT
Wasn't everyone broke in '35?
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 22, 2023 20:02:38 GMT
Wasn't everyone broke in '35? |
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:03:06 GMT
Whatever happened to picture into picture fades? 30s signature.
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Post by ando on Jan 22, 2023 20:04:01 GMT
Dude needs a coaster. 
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:04:25 GMT
Supposedly Joyce is based on real-life actress Jeanne Eagels (later played by Kim Novak in a full-blown biopic).
Two of Miss Eagels' films, THE LETTER and JEALOUSY were remade by Bette Davis in the 1940s.
Eagels was much more than an alcoholic...she was a heroin addict.
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Post by topbilled on Jan 22, 2023 20:05:44 GMT
Too much expository dialogue in this men's club scene. Just show us, don't explain or tell us everything about the characters' backgrounds.
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