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Word: janet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owner (Carleton Carpenter) is inducted, he cannot bear to part with his playful pet, and secretly puts him up in a cage on the Army post. This leads to complications involving a hard-boiled sergeant (Keenan Wynn), an apoplectic colonel (Wilton Graff) and a visiting movie star (Janet Leigh). All ends happily, with Janet and Carleton finding love, and Fagan finding a home in Hollywood. The fadeout shows Fagan, majestically poised on a diving board, leaping into a movietown swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Janet Turner, 38, who likes neat, precise pictures of crumbling marble staircases and brightly speckled guinea fowl, arrived in Texas five years ago to teach at Stephen Austin College, has just won a Guggenheim to experiment in color prints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lone Star Artists | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Three-and-a-half hours of Jean Crain and Janet Leigh in one double-feature is as good an excuse as any to forget that Thursday exam for one evening...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Belles On Their Toes | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

...saved for the second feature, "Just This Once," which has Janet Leigh in a sweater, a double-feature in itself. This picture takes the fairly standard gimmicks of a lady barrister and a spendthrift young multimillionaire and parlays them, principally by clever dialogue, into an extremely funny story. It is really a better movie than the feature...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Belles On Their Toes | 6/3/1952 | See Source »

...Master Swordsman Ferrer's steel; he also proves to be quite a gay blade by hiding out from the authorities with a troupe of traveling players. By the fadeout, Granger has found that Ferrer is really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist of plot, that beauteous Janet Leigh is not really his sister, as he had supposed. This latter development prompts Eleanor Parker, a red-haired hellcat with whom Granger has been whiling away the previous reels, to console herself with a young Corsican lieutenant named Napoleon Bonaparte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 26, 1952 | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

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