Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grow On. In Radlett, England, Miss Sarah Ann Young got a present on her 100th birthday: records showing that she was really...
Mike Jacobs, scheming, scowling No. 1 U.S. fight promoter, smiled all over his face as he and Mrs. Josephine Jacobs adopted five-month-old Joan Ann...
Charles Chaplin, acquitted of a Mann Act indictment charging that he transported Joan Berry across state lines for immoral purposes, had still to face two actions: 1) his alleged paternity of Miss Berry's six-month-old daughter, Carol Ann; 2) his alleged deprivation of Miss Berry's civil rights...
Shine On, Harvest Moon (Warners) turns the careers of vigorous Songstress Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and her songwriting husband Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) into a fictional clothesline on which to hang the hit tunes of the sporty, cheroot-fumed decades before World War I. Norworth's resurrected song hits are given too little of the original cornstarch, too much contemporary orchestral bluing, but the pretty, evocative title song and the swinging, swooping Take Me Out to the Ball Game may be around for quite a while. (Of four new songs, the likeliest is Time Waits...
...period-act; but an act is not acting and Novelist Bronte's Rochester is not meant to be amusing. For Cinemactor Welles to play Rochester as a man of ham, not of heart, wrenches the whole mood of Jane Eyre. But in the opening reels, little Peggy Ann Garner (as the child Jane), brilliantly abetted by Henry Daniell (as a demoniac preacher-schoolmaster), and by some loud-pedaled cinemaginativeness, establishes a nightmarish chiaroscuro of pity and gloom which, if sustained, might have made Jane Eyre a great picture...