Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wandering gentleman-in-the-making took his girl slumming in the Ritz Saturday night only to have her spot Miss Joan Bennett standing on the stairway resplendent in white fox. Miss Bennett, accompanied by a friend entered a cab and swirled off down Arlington Street pursued by the slummers in their own car. The quarry alighted at the Copley...
...Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, and Robert Montgomery star in the major offering at Loew's this week, "The Bride Were Red." Sprinkled with a pleasant whinsy, the picture displays Mr. Tone in a manner better than usual and the film is greatly enhanced by his presence. Miss Crawford is splendid in the first reel or so, after which her part becomes slightly tedious until the later episodes. Mr. Montgomery plays his ordinary rich-wise-guy-mugger role...
...relatively unimportant, for the Ritzes dominate each individual with their energetic buffoonery. Fred Stone played well the only serious part in the movie as the football coach. Nat Pendleton, former Olympic wrestling champion, is good as the Indian who, off the football field, is pursued by corknerow-featured Joan Davis...
...Joan Bennett, who spurned the stage for the screen, now comes back from the screen to the stage to tell about a girl who refused to spurn the stage for the screen. If this minor irony doesn't obtrude itself upon your attention, you will find George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "Stage Door" a rather absorbing bit of sentimental comedy. With Mr. Kaufman monopolizing the Boylston-Tremont region, go see "You Can't Take It With You" first, then "Stage Door", and finally "I'd Rather Be Right"; or, proceed in the reverse order...
Divorced. Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Joan, Barbara, Constance; by Angela Raisch Bennett; in Los Angeles. Married since 1927, they separated in 1934. Mrs. Bennett was awarded $60,000 community property. Said she: "Dick would go temporarily insane, and play his parts with such realism that he climaxed one performance by driving a nail file through my cheek...