Word: janet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adam of the Road - Elizabeth Janet Gray...
...Known hitherto as a confirmed bachelor, studious Sir William last week surprised his friends by announcing his engagement to his Scottish sister-in-law, Mrs. Janet Mair, mother of four children and a grandmother to boot. Said she: "I am radiant." Said he:"My future wife is about my own age (63). She's a very charming person...
...setting is a subterranean flat is Greenwich Village, the plot knows no limits, and for good measure Janet Blair is thrown into the cast with fiery Rosalind Russell to make "My Sister Eileen" a far from commonplace film. The screen version of this Fields and Chodorov comedy stage his naturally loses a bit of its original frankness at the hands of Columbia Studios, but the basic story of two would-be career girls from the midwest turned loose in a Hollywood version of old New York leaves plenty of room for the comic situations that develop...
Aherne has a small, dull part and is, as a result, of little interest. Rosalind Russell, more attractive in many respects than Janet Blair, is for some odd reason overlooked by all the men until she finally gets Aherne. George Tobias plays a skillful Appopoulos, the loquacious landlord with an enlarged idea of his artistic abilities. The film's continual helter-skelter action makes most of the actors first-class candidates for an asylum, but it's only a story and as such is good entertainment...
...Sister Eileen (Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair, Brian Aherne, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn; TIME, Sept...