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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara-comes off second-best but, as a more sophisticated inmate of the Ecole Nationale des Arts Dramatiques she wears her clothes well and conveys an air of sullen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Triangle drama, recklessly adapted from Keith Winter's play, about a cabaret dancer (Joan Crawford) who marries an aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) and falls in love with his brother (Robert Young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Joan E. Jones, of Wichita, Kans., as Assistant in Chemistry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-ONE TEACHING AND FACULTY MEMBERS ADDED TO 1939 STAFF | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...yarn about a school for transport pilots run by army men. The picture shows Harry Carcy, as head of the school, working Richard Dix and Chester Morris 24 hours a day, completely ignoring differences between military and civilian flying, and disregarding nearly all the federal laws governing the latter. Joan Fontaine registers the correct emotions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/27/1938 | See Source »

...painfully routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial race depend on the big game gloomily watching State's fabulously effective girl dropkicker (Joan Davis) miss a crucial field goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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