Franchot Tone Movies

This short traces the history of sound in the movies, beginning with French scientist Leon Scott's experiments in 1857. Featured are snippets from...

A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

Don Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. He asks his...

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."

Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great...

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacifist. He lives near a secret military base she...

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

Twelve Angry Men is a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the Studio One anthology television series. Initially staged as a CBS live production on 20...

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize...

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her...

Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair,...

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who...

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

A runaway bride and an undercover reporter get caught up in political intrigue as they lead a merry chase across Europe and uncover a spy plot.

Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work....

Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...