Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young to think of romance," said Cinemactress Peggy Ann Garner. At 15, she had reached woman's estate in Hollywood and was making a standard denial of standard gossip. She and wealthy, 18-year-old Viscount Furness,* said Peggy, were just good friends...
...first thing you notice in Hollywood," reported British Cinemactress Ann Todd, now back home, ". . . is that you're tremendously important." She had been treated like a queen, she told the London Daily Express, but "never think they love you, because they don't." Cooperation? "If you don't surrender your whole life, including your husband, children, home and private thoughts," recalled Miss Todd, "they will say: 'Miss Todd, you're not being cooperative...
Nora Prentiss (Warner) starts off as a story about a prim, married doctor (Kent Smith) who falls for a nightclub singer (Ann Sheridan) and cannot bear to tell his wife (Rosemary DeCamp). In spite of some dilution and artificiality, the early reels are fairly plausible and appealing-for at least they are about recognizable people in a recognizable predicament. Then artifice takes over...
...Ann Sheridan has pleasant vigor in the earlier, comic scenes. Kent Smith, battling against plot circumstance, simulates some believable confusion and sickness of heart. But both players put up a losing fight against the story's unreality...
...scoundrel"-i.e., he is not to be mistaken for a human being. Georges Duroy (George Sanders)-Bel Ami to his lady friends-is a scoundrel, at the very least. Starting all but penniless, he climbs aboard Journalist John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan Douglas) ; makes a pass (unsuccessful) at devout Frances Dee; contracts a convenience...