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Word: jeane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean Gabin's head is now snow white. The jaunty, bowlegged walk is a little rusty, but the lined half-smiling face is still assured and debonair. The romantic star of People Moco over a decade ago still has the old technique. And he demonstrates it in the best Gabin manner as he adroitly maneuvers young leading lady Blanchette Brunoy into his parlour and onto his couch. However, Miss Brunoy's acting ability does not rate her a place on the same couch with Gabin. She is attractive in face and figure, but her facial expression is limited to three...

Author: By Michael Maccosy, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/8/1952 | See Source »

France's General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny turned the tide against the Communist advance in Indo-China. At year's end, however, De Lattre lay ill in Paris, and the Indo-China war was far from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN OF THE YEAR: Challenge of the East | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Legend of Lovers (adapted by Kitty Black from the French of Jean Anouilh) is provocative, but at a very high price. On a mythological foundation, Playwright Anouilh has reared a modern fantasy thick with symbolic scrollwork, ironic turrets, philosophic staircases, mystical passageways. Instead of reanimating the Orpheus & Eurydice legend with new poignancy, the play ends by crushing it to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...deceptively slow opening sequence, "Clouded Yellow" follows ex-espionage agent Trevor Howard as he goes job-hunting in an inconspicuous white Jaguar SS. Eventually he finds employment in a lonely country mansion where Jean Simmons--beautiful as ever--is being driven mad by her conniving step-parents. Then someone tries to frame Miss Simmons for murder, Howard piles her into the trunk compartment and leaves town. Step-parents, police, and assorted MI-5 agents follow in hot pursuit...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Clouded Yellow | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...News got 12%, but two-thirds of it concerned the local kidnap-murder of ten-year-old Patricia Jean Hull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Close to Zero | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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