89: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Clark Gable, Franchot Tone and Barbara Payton

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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By the mid-1930s, Joan Crawford was very, very famous, and negotiating both an affair with Clark Gable (her most frequent co-star and the only male star of her stature), and a new marriage to Franchot Tone, who, like Joan’s first husband, was an actor who was not quite on her level of stardom. Crawford’s marriage to Tone would span the back half of the decade, as Crawford’s stardom peaked, and then began its first decline. Today we’ll talk about that, and then we’ll tell a story about what happened to Franchot Tone after Joan Crawford - particularly, the strange love triangle he entered into in the 1950s, with the gorgeous but self-destructive starlet Barbara Payton at its center. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.8	Three.
0:22.8	Welcome to JKavまで,
0:30.0	To another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret
0:38.4	and or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, part of the Panopling Network.
0:46.2	I'm your host, Karina Longworth, and this is another installment in our summer series,
0:54.2	Six Degrees of Joan Crawford.
0:57.8	Actually, I think I was just born dancing, and that's all I ever wanted to do in life.
1:03.1	I know what you like.
1:04.7	Now, why can't you be friendly?
1:05.9	But I am a big friend.
1:07.0	No, I mean it. Friendship's much more lasting than love.
1:09.8	It's called, um.
1:11.4	Let's give it a new work.
1:14.1	Dreams?
1:17.4	Bad dreams.
1:18.6	I don't see how any home can be complete without children.
1:24.1	I'm sorry this had happened.
1:26.9	No, you're going to listen.
1:35.9	Last week, we told the story of Joan Crawford's rise to stardom
1:40.8	through the late 1920s and early 1930s
1:44.2	and her first marriage to Hollywood-sion Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
1:49.7	In this week's episode, we catch up with a Joan Crawford who is very, very famous
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