Franchot Tone

Blackmail letters sent to the missing wife of a hotshot politician usher in a call to a private detective to track her down and dig up her past.

When a NY Assistant DA investigates a series of murders, he meets an array of shadowy characters and uncovers a link to a White supremacist group.

Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn stars as a woman on the verge of becoming a spinster who becomes trapped by her own elaborate ruse to win the heart of the man she loves in Quality Street. Phoebe Throssel (Hepburn) was heartbroken when Dr. Valentine Brown (Franchot Tone) left her to fight the army of Napoleon, and Phoebe has remained in love and single waiting for him. But when Dr. Brown returns after ten years and inadvertently humiliates her with a comment on her appearance, Phoebe changes her hair and buys a new gown. And when Dr. Brown then mistakes Phoebe for her younger niece, Livvy, she does not correct him and proceeds to woo the man she loves in her new identity. But when Dr. Brown confesses to 'Livvy' that he loves Phoebe, she must find a way to tell the doctor the truth.

Did Samuel Metford push his wife from Dover Cliff? Lady Helen Dearden saw the Metfords there and knows the woman's death was an accident. If she testifies in court, an innocent man avoids the gallows. Yet one thing will die if she testifies – her barrister husband's career. Lady Helen had secretly gone to Dover to pay off the blackmailer who possessed letters linking her husband romantically to a married woman. Her trust in her spouse is further tested when he is later accused of killing the woman addressed in the letters. Did Lady Helen wed a murderer? Twists abound in this luminous whodunit featuring Loretta Young and Franchot Tone as the sophisticated, increasingly disquieted Deardens. Roland Young adds wit as the Deardens' friend. And little-known Henry Daniell excels as the blackmailer.

Saga of a Louisiana family from the 19th Century to WWI.

A slick mystery thriller from the 1940s about a Paris police inspector tracking a serial killer before chasing him up the Eiffel Towel’s structure.

Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Fred Astaire and the Three Stooges star in this musical romantic comedy about two strong-willed men who will do anything to win the heart of a Dancing Lady. Down on her luck, Janie Barlow (Academy Award winner Crawford--The Women, Humoresque) resorts to dancing in a burlesque show where she is seen by--and instantly wins the heart of--slumming milliona...

An American heiress flees from her planned wedding to a Prince with a man whom she doesn't know is a reporter.

Jean Harlow stars as an ambitious showgirl loved by two very different men in the dramatic musical Reckless. Theatrical promoter Bob Harrison (Franchot Tone) loves Mona (Harlow), but he cannot compete with wealthy socialite Ned Riley (William Powell) when Riley buys every seat in the theater to be able to watch Mona's performance alone. Ned and Mona wed, but Ned's family rejects Mona as a shameless gold digger. Torn between his family's rejection and his love for Mona, Ned commits suicide--leaving Mona to put her life and career back together. Featuring songs by Jerome Kern, Jack King and Burton Lane.

Sales clerk Anabel Sims believes Every Girl Should be Married. And she has the target, er, groom picked out: pediatrician Madison Brown. Unfortunately, Dr. Brown is not interested in marriage or in Anabel. But not to worry – Anabel's sure she can outmaneuver any mere male. And she'll employ every ruse, stratagem and ploy in a marriage-minded maiden's bag of tricks to land the elusive American bachelor. Romantic-comedy icon Cary Grant and film-debuting Betsy Drake team in this frothy, funny paean to postwar domesticity. The sparkle between the two is delightful – and genuine: Soon after the film premiered they became real-life husband and wife. Hmm. Sounds like Anabel just may have been right!

Jane Bandle se acaba de casar, pero su cuñado Bill trata de arruinar su matrimonio porque ella rechazó sus anteriores avances sexuales.

A mediocre stand-up comic with gambling debts runs away to the West Side of Chicago.

In this pilot of an unproduced anthology, an American traveler must help his French friend and the man’s beautiful fiancée escape a witch’s curse.