Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on Franchot Tone

In his autobiography, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. who was, of course, married to Joan Crawford when she met Franchot Tone on the set of the 1933 film Today We Live, called Franchot “a fine actor from New York.” Fairbanks, Jr. also said:

Today we would call Tone a concerned citizen—he shocked some of the insular movie people with his outspoken and informed left-liberal politics, expressed in the cultured accents of the eastern upper-class establishment. He was really a nice, amicable guy who frankly enjoyed biting the conservative hand that fed him.

It seems that Douglas held no malice toward his ex-wife's next husband. Actually, it appears that he admired Franchot's outspokenness. Later in his book, Douglas does, however, reveal that he and Joan had a minor flirtation near the end of Franchot and Joan's marriage.

Source: Fairbanks, Douglas. The Salad Days. New York: Doubleday, 1988. 194, 304-305. Print.