Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers in Britain learned to like a leggy, blond comic-strip character named Jane. Each day in the London Daily Mirror, Artist W. Norman Pett found some way of making Jane lose all, or almost all her clothes (TIME, Oct. 18, 1943). He was pretty inventive about it: Jane would catch her skirt in a bicycle sprocket, in revolving machinery, in a plane fall (see cut) or a pratfall...
...Cents a Dance (Columbia), like Out of the Night, succeeds at once intersely handling an artificial but by no means dull story, and in making its people and their surroundings true-to-life. The story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they...
Last month, with London booksellers concurring, Dr. Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, nominated Trollope for first place in wartime British reading popularity (Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters tied for second place, Dickens and Thackeray for third). Nostalgia for the days when English life could be portrayed as a comedy of manners was the general, if perhaps too simple, explanation...
...took with him a Lucite name plate, a box of cigars, a black walnut tobacco humidor, a letter opener made from a B-29 throttle by some of his boys in India long ago, and a leather folder containing pictures of his wife Helen and six-year-old daughter Jane, who wait in Lakewood, Ohio...
Jealousy (Republic) dramatizes neurosis. The neurosis belongs to a refugee writer (Nils Asther). He is somewhat paranoiac, so his wife Janet (Jane Randolph) has to support him by driving a taxi. Her husband becomes jealous of one of her fares, a Dr. Brent (John Loder), and the doctor's handsome colleague, Monica (Karen Morley). About the time Cinemactor Asther stops threatening to commit suicide or murder, he is murdered himself. Who kills him is something of a mystery, but even those who are not much mystified will find other things to interest them in the film...