Word: janet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Janet Fairbank, 44, concert soprano, venturesome talent-hunter, daughter of Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank (The Bright Land), niece of Pulitzer Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (Years of Grace); of malignant leukemia; in Chicago. Her practice of singing new songs instead of sure-fire classics consistently lost her money, won her the gratitude of young U.S. composers...
...MacBean (Selena Royle) is glad to have Van around, and young Lissy (Janet Leigh) makes eyes enough for a whole county's quota of farmers' daughters. Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) is less easily won over by the stranger. The Civil War has just been fought, and feeling still runs high. Barns are being burned by masked riders; Yankees and ex-Rebels still won't help each other out with the crops, or even keep their tempers at a party. Old Man MacBean, a 100% Rebel, has a burning question: Are the stranger's britches blue...
...title warns, this is just a romance; so any objections are bound to seem captious. There could be no objections to parts of the movie. The songs are pretty, Newcomer Janet Leigh is pretty to look at and there are some rather pretty bits of deep-country detail (e.g., hustling the hay in ahead of a storm). But Rosy Ridge attempts to base its romance on authentic and charming Americana. The job requires more than prettiness and benevolent patriotism. Faces, hands, clothes and postures need to suggest hard work, real life and a certain tension of character, rather than mere...
...Engaged. Janet Helen Attlee, 24, curly-haired eldest daughter of Britain's Labor Prime Minister; to Harold William Shipton, 26, bespectacled electrical engineer; in London...
Pitted, flaccid Frank Clair is the hero of a new novel by Janet Miriam Taylor Caldwell, whose previous novels (This Side of Innocence, The Eagles Gather, Dynasty of Death, etc.) have rung up a total sale of almost 2,000,000 copies. This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction seller of 1946. Consequently, the appearance of her new novel is an event for her admirers-and, for analytical critics, another ripe opportunity to examine the ingredients and treatment wherewith Author Caldwell has made herself one of the richest novelists...