I've read that, too,--Tom. about--John Kerr being Franchot Tone's illegitimate (do they still use that word in that context?) son. He certainly more closely resembed the handsome Tone, but then,--who knows?--maybe Frederick Kerr was a handsome devil in his youth? Also, re John Kerr, it's my sense that his being Tone's son was less hush hush or scandalous than, say, Loretta Young's out of wedlock daughter with Clark Gable. Now that would have ruined Loretta's imae had it come out anytime prior to 1960 or thereabouts. Franchot Tone was a sophisticate, a fine actor whose career never rose to great heights in films. Tone hobnobbed with artists and intellectual types, and occasionally society folk, too, and my guess is that if knowldge that he had an out wedlock son circulated in those circles it would scarcely have raised more than an eyebrow or two.