Happy New Year! It's been a while since I've posted to the blog, but hopefully you've been seeing the photos on my Franchot Face...

Picture Show was a weekly film fan magazine from the United Kingdom that ran from 1919 to 1960. Picture Show also released an annual magazin...

Eleven days after Franchot's death—of lung cancer at the age of 63 on September 18, 1968—Shepard Traube wrote to the editor of The New Y...

On his way to the guillotine, a scientist recounts his discovery of a diamond lens and his overwhelming need to perfect the microscope for a...

Franchot Tone in his first film role in The Wiser Sex, 1932. Source: scan from my collection. In 1932 Franchot made his movie debut in the f...

Today We Live is Franchot's second film (the first being The Wiser Sex ) and his first film with Joan Crawford. With an all-star cast o...