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Word: janes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane Russell, Milton Berle and Jimmy Durante have refused to appear at this year's Freshman Smoker, but Committee Chairman Michael Yamin '53 says other professional entertainers will be contacted in an effort to provide amusement at the annual frolic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Talent May Perform at March 3 Smoker | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Willow and I, with Jane Wyman and Mel Ferrer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 23, 1950 | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Lady Takes a Sailor (Warner) pursues its laughs with the single-mindedness of a determined practical joker. A low-comedy farce about sedate professional people, it douses the characters with paint, runs them down with trick automobiles, and sticks them with pitchforks. The plot maneuvers Jane Wyman, director of a consumers' research institute, into Dennis Morgan's top-secret navy sea tractor. Jane's reputation in her job depends on proving that she was actually underseas with Morgan, Morgan's on suppressing the film she shot in his craft. Most of the gags are pretty thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Anything for Laughs | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...course, the ever watchful censors have cut some material out of the great stork. Purists will be interested to know that two immortal lines have been exorcised. Jack Beutel once said at one point. "Don't move or I'll rip your blouse," and Jane Russell mumbles later on, "I'll keep him warm." Also missing are four lusty wallops on the kettledrum and two choruses of the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony...

Author: By Donlad Carswell, | Title: The Outlaw | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

...acting, Jane Russell inspired in me the desire to lob pennies in her direction...

Author: By Donlad Carswell, | Title: The Outlaw | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

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