Personal Life
In 1935, Tone married actress Joan Crawford; they were divorced in 1939. They made seven films together: Today We Live (1933), Dancing Lady (1933), Sadie McKee (1934), No More Ladies (1935), The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Love On The Run (1936) and The Bride Wore Red (1937).
In 1951, Tone's relationship with actress Barbara Payton made headlines when he suffered numerous facial injuries and fell into a coma for 18 hours following a fistfight with actor Tom Neal, a rival for Payton's attention. Plastic surgery nearly restored his broken nose and cheek, and Tone subsequently married Payton, divorcing her in 1952 after obtaining incriminating photographs proving she had continued her relationship with Neal.
He married and divorced two other times:
- Fashion model-turned-actress Jean Wallace (1941–48), with whom he had two sons and who appeared with Tone in both Jigsaw and The Man on the Eiffel Tower
- Actress Dolores Dorn (1956–59), with whom he appeared in Uncle Vanya.
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