Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because the picture deals with everyday U. S. types, casting was all-important. Key character was Ma Joad (Jane Darwell). If she was wrong, the picture could never be in focus. She is magnificent. Russell Simpson is owlish Pa Joad. He is also a million men who plough, seed and harvest U. S. farms. Only star used was Henry Fonda (Tom Joad). For him the part was a throwback to one of his best roles, the young lineman in Slim. Others like John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Zeffie Tilbury, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Frank Darien have played minor roles in pictures...
...bluster, and when the external shell comes off, insecurity, loneliness and an appealing love of humanity that cannot be hid. His barbaric naturalness wins the gentle Philadelphia girl who has run away from the sterility of her home. To what is the most difficult part of the play Jane Wyatt gives simplicity and feeling. Her emotional harmony with Kazan is well-handled and grows convincingly from act to act. As the paternal detective with all his natural goodness, Morris Carnovsky could not be better. It is hard to single out any of the supporting cast for more praise than...
...wrote a film version of Eve Curie's life story of her mother. Garbo was to have played it, but the story was shelved. Just completed, in collaboration with Jane Murfin, is an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...accepting Miss Gravell's resignation, Miss Jane Sachs '40, vice-president, and Miss Margaret Gelders '42, treasurer, stated that the stand taken by the Madison convention will "stimulate discussion...
...second surprise marriage greater Starlet Jane Bryan, 21, espoused Justin Whitlock Dart, 32, general manager of Walgreen Drug Co., a divorced son-in-law of the late Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen. Formally Cinemactress Bryan's husband announced that his wife was through with pictures. Warner Brothers expressed bewilderment, resignation, doubt that movie-struck Jane Bryan would be able to live up to such a marriage vow so soon after her first big part (in We Are Not Alone...