Word: janet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sister Eileen (Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair, Brian Aherne, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn; TIME, Sept...
...troops in Northern Ireland pored fondly over thousands of pictures of girls back home, studied and studied, finally chose as "Sweetheart of the A.E.F," Janet Barry, 18-year-old typist of Belmar, N.J., because...
...Sister Eileen (Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair, Brian Aherne, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn; TIME, Sept...
Plain Sister Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and lovely Sister Eileen (Janet Blair) leave Columbus, Ohio for a basement apartment in Greenwich Village and literary and stage careers respectively. Work on an incipient subway rocks the floor every few minutes. A dog mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius...
Rosalind Russell handles Sister Ruth's wit & wisdom with the neat feeling for bias on which she tailors her comic flair. Newcomer Janet Blair, as Sister Eileen, is as fetching as a soda-fountain special at the end of a hot day. Male cinemaddicts will regard her as so much guileless natural force disguised in sprigged muslin. Her prototype, Eileen McKenney, was killed (with her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West) in an auto crash (TIME...