<< Tone hobnobbed with artists and intellectual types, and occasionally society folk <<

Welllll ... yes but with an asterisk. He was also a kinda-crazy drunk and, I get the impression, could only get his kink on with "bad girls." He had a son (John Kerr), if the rumors are correct, out of wedlock; had a fairly public fling with Barbara Payton back in the buttoned-down '50s; got beat to a pulp by her OTHER nutzoid boyfriend Tom Neal, which was in all the papers; got into another fistfight while trying to pick up a girl in the midst of making his TWILIGHT ZONE episode (that's why he's only seen in profile throughout most of the ep -- the other side of his face was hamburger), etc. For a blue blood, he sure liked to bleed!