Word: haywards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Illustrator Joseph St. Amand staggered out of a Los Angeles cinema where he had just beheld legsome Susan Hayward in Adam Had Four Sons (see p. 93), summoned all his superlatives, and announced the formation of a "Perfect Legs Institute of America," for which he (and a corps of press agents) demanded that Cinemactress Susan be drafted as president. Geewhizzed Artist St. Amand, who envisages a comprehensive "Academy of Feminine Perfection" as a sort of penultimate holding company of compelling female corporeality: "Not only does she have perfect legs; she has the poise and the intellect necessary...
When the World War I boom refills Adam's purse, back comes the governess and everything begins to look like old times even though the cast has aged. But the war catches some of them, produces a troublesome little wife (Susan Hayward) for son David (Johnny Downs), who goes abroad with the Canadian Air Force...
...plays the part of a villainous usurper by the name of Gurko who is seeking the throne and the hand of Joan Bennett. Joan, however, knows better and with the help of the second of the Cristo line she foils him in every respect. This fellow Cristo (Louis Hayward) is less convincing in his portrayal of virility than is Alice Faye in the role of Virtue Rewarded. The one slightly redeeming feature of the picture is Gurko's right-hand man, a strange mixture of Akim Tamiroff and the master of Mike's Club. Though half the time...
...visitors have a capable 50 man in Bill Runge and a good breastroker in Charles Hayward, and Coach Ulen will probably enter his first ranking men in these events. In the others the reserves will undoubtedly be used as much as possible. The breastroke and the 50 are the two events in which the present Harvard squad could stand the most improvement...
...cook up a skit. First problem was to get actors, but that was no trouble for Columnist Lolly, whose more than 400 daily outlets and strong Hearst connections are a potent argument in any studio discussion. Before long she had lined up Starlets Jane Wyman, Arleen Whelan, Susan Hayward, June Preisser, Warners' bit player Ronald Reagan for male contrast, Fox Press Agent Jack Mulcahy to manage the outfit-all borrowed at their regular studio salaries instead of the higher price usually paid for loan-outs. Happy Agent Morrison quickly booked them in seven cities at a flat rate...