Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-3, 1952.
Franchot Tone arriving for trial.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-2, 1952.
Franchot Tone arriving for trial, Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace and their attorney confer at right.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial, 1952.
L to R at counsel table as hearing is about to start: Cornel Wilde confers with attorney Norman Newmark, Jean Wallace looks askance at a blase' Franchot Tone and his attorney, Kenneth Chantry. Jean Wallace had, of course, lost custody of the two boys in her divorce from Tone a couple of years earlier. In the interim, though, her life had stabilized with the marriage to Cornel Wilde and Tone's orderly life had unraveled with his well-publicized, near fatal Barbara Payton/Tom Neal serial kerfuffle.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-9, 1952.
Cornel Wilde comforts wife, Jean Wallace, when noon recess was called after she had a breakdown on stand.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-4, 1952.
Jean Wallace and husband Cornel Wilde, outside courtroom.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-8, 1952.
Jean Wallace and husband Cornel Wilde, outside courtroom.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-5, 1952.
Franchot Tone and Jean Wallace confer outside the courtroom under the watchful eyes of their respective attorneys.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-6, 1952.
More conferring...
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961
Jean Wallace Wilde ... Franchot Tone custody trial-7, 1952. by
MichaelRyerson, on Flickr
Jean Wallace (and Cornel Wilde) prevails, gaining sole custody and voluntarily extends generous visitation rights to Tone.
USCdigital archive/Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961