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...Pollyanna. For the past two years, she has been living with Producer Roy Boulting, 55. "I could never fall in love with anyone unless first I had enormous admiration for him," she says. "I never met a young man of my own age for whom I had this feeling." Joanna Steichen was 26 when she married Photographer Edward Steichen, who was 80. That was nine years ago,.and Mrs. Steichen says she has never regretted it. "In many ways," she observes, "the girls in such marriages want very much to conform, once they've done this nonconforming." Joanna...
...Angeles accountant, he took off as a youth for the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest. Since then, he has worked as a carpenter, plasterer and handyman, fought as a Marine in two wars before hitting upon his present trade. Today, he lives with his second wife Joanna, daughter of Industrial Designer Lester Beall, and works in the front room of the cottage they live in on Father Beall's gentlemanly farm in Brookfield Center, Conn...
...heroine (Genevieve Waite) is a Sassoon-style adolescent come down to London to study art. Soon artists start studying Joanna. She plays musical beds with every boy who rubs against her, makes friends with the world, and generally lives without any of the conventional moral hang-ups. The trouble is that the freedom bag turns out to be a prison without walls. Pleasure is everywhere, but Joanna is nowhere, until she makes a commitment by falling in love with a brooding black man (Calvin Lockhart). The affair winds down to tragedy; mixed up with the Mob, he gets a long...
...story is overly familiar, and Joanna could have been just another imitative chronicle of a wounded bird, in the manner of Darling or Poor Cow. But Director Same, who also wrote the script, has given it purpose and individuality by flashing back and forth through Joanna's life, ransacking her dreams, exploring her past and minutely exposing the style of a swinger with inventive images that linger in the retina. Not all of the film works. Its sometimes derivative surface is equally indebted to Jean-Luc Godard and shampoo commercials. Even Edgar Guest would have been embarrassed...
...South African, she has been barred from re-entering her homeland because of Joanna's interracial love scenes...