Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...displays some beautiful and seductive women. For the rest, however, it consists of the usual acrobats, guitar players, slapstick comics, and tap dancers. The De Marcos come down from the St. Regis and live to do a very nice bit of dancing. A troupe of jugglers awes very efficiently. Jane Pickens is lovely to look at and O.K. for listening, too, except when she teams up with some tenor fellow who flats around here and there as the show's romantic lead...
...play Jane Peyton, Director Lloyd chose Newcomer Martha Scott, whose only previous movie assignment was the naïve New England schoolgirl in Our Town. The daughter of a Gee's Creek. Mo. electrical engineer, Martha's brief movie record belies her acting experience, which began in Kansas City at the age of "about twelve or so" when she took up public speaking and dramatics to overcome an inferiority complex. She went to the University of Michigan to study teaching, received...
Matt Howard (Gary Grant) is a husky, handsome backwoodsman with a slight Scottish accent who woos and wins Jane Peyton (Martha Scott), a well-heeled Tory from Williamsburg, Va. Matt Howard takes his bride to the backwoods, where together they raise a family of three, build an inappropriately ornate house, try to reconcile their clashing view points. As a backwoods member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Matt is fired by rabble-rousing Patrick Henry (Richard Gaines), and by the quiet logic of his good friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson). When war comes he marches off to battle, endures...
Correspondent Jane's Fighting Ships Jackson Heights...
...adapting Helen Jerome's dramatization of Miss Austen's novel, able Screen writer Jane Murfin's collaborator was Aldous Huxley, who went to California two years ago for eye treatments. He wrote a screen play for Garbo about Marie Curie which disappeared without a trace, supposedly because of family objections (Daughter Irene Joliot-Curie is thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic...