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  • Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    (1929–33), Franchot Tone (1935–39), and Phillip Terry (1942–46) and to Alfred Steele (1955–59), chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Company. After his death in 1959 she became a director of the company and in that role hired her friend Dorothy Arzner to film several Pepsi commercials. Crawford’s adopted


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    (1929–33), Franchot Tone (1935–39), and Phillip Terry (1942–46) and to Alfred Steele (1955–59), chairman of the Pepsi-Cola Company. After his death in 1959 she became a director of the company and in that role hired her friend Dorothy Arzner to film several Pepsi commercials. Crawford’s adopted


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  • A Night at the Opera
    Sam Wood
    / Films with the Marx Brothers

    
complicated but stagy mystery starring Franchot Tone and Loretta Young.

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complicated but stagy mystery starring Franchot Tone and Loretta Young.

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