"I don't know how good Franchot's influence was on me or mine on him. Aside from The Man on the Eiffel Tower, a movie we made together in Paris, most of our coventures were in pursuit of pleasure. We shared many a bottle and many a girl, both in New York and Hollywood, in our bachelor days. There were also some quiet times in Canada at his hunting lodge."
"Tone had a secret side to him. It was his love of the Canadian woods. He was a fine woodsman. Most people knew him only as a playboy, a friend of Howard Hughes and De Cicco and all the other high rollers. He was the chief charge-account customer at "21" and Ciro's and the Stork Club. Every place he went he was the chosen playboy-elegantly dressed, handsome, towing an array of lovely women."
"His career never reached the height his ex-wife's [Joan Crawford] did, because, I think, he seemed to have had too much given to him. Wealth, for example. His father was the president of the Carborundum Company. Brains. Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell. Talent. A superstar. Problems. Lack of discipline. But he enjoyed life to the end, loving and being loved by an army of fans and friends...Franchot and I remained close friends from that first meeting with his bride until I spoke at his funeral."
Source:
Meredith, Burgess. So Far, so Good: A Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. 72-76. Print.
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