Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Diana Wanger Anderson, 21, eldest daughter of Cinemactress Joan Bennett, and John Hardy Anderson, 31, aircraft-parts manufacturer: their first child (and first grandchild for 39-year-old Joan Bennett), a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Amanda. Weight...
Little Women (MGM) is Hollywood's second try at exploiting Louisa May Alcott's genteel, durable New England tearjerker. A shade less ambitious than its 1933 predecessor (which starred Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett), it still jerks tears with easy efficiency...
...Similar practices are not unknown in the U.S. In 1863, Horace Greeley denounced the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett for running "personals." Sample: "Mischievous Lizzy and Mary wish to form the acquaintance of two lively gentlemen . . . They must be of high society; none need answer unless sincere." The tony Saturday Review of Literature still carries such coy invitations as: "Will clever Cleopatra correspond with mature, amiable Antony...
Sidney Howard; produced by John Golden), when it won the Pulitzer Prize in the mid-'20s, had a fresh slant and a fine cast (Richard Bennett, Pauline Lord and Glenn Anders). Revived without luster in 1939, it seemed sadly dated. Dumped down on Broadway last week, it seemed all but dead...
...help tell this somber story, Paramount has used the services of a good British director, Compton Bennett (The Seventh Veil), a charming, able British star, Miss Calvert, and some competent British supporting players. The result is nonetheless a poor counterfeit of the genuine product. My Own True Love lacks the virtues of the best British movies (subtle human detail, glints of gentle humor, authentic backgrounds), but it has the faults of being talky, stodgy and intolerably slow...