Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dreamy-eyed from hearing the great Enzo Curti (Gigli) sing on the radio, Helen Carlton (Joan Gardner) has a shipboard romance with First Officer Hugh Anderson (Ivan Brandt) on the way to the U. S. Believing malicious gossip, she jilts Officer Anderson on arrival, rebounds into the arms of Tenor Curti, whom she meets after finding his motherless son (Richard Gofe) in the hotel corridor. Married, they go off on a world tour which gives opportunity for a sound montage of excerpts from nine of the great operas. In London comes the inevitable second encounter with First Officer Anderson...
Irene and The Joy of Living with Irene Dunne; Stage Door with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers; Victoria the Great with Anton Walbrook and Anna Neagle; and a covey of new celebrities including Joan Fontaine, sister of Warner Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland...
...Hollywood's brightest Pinks, Jimmy Cagney's public deeds have been nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Jean Muir and Edward Arnold were debating something really big-a strike of the Guild which would shut every film studio down tight. While a committee headed by President Robert Montgomery negotiated the Guild's demands with representatives of producers, a hundred or more stars gathered nightly...
Every night producers and Guild officers talked until 2 or 3 a. m. While her husband, Franchot Tone, backed up President Montgomery with telling arguments, Second Vice President Joan Crawford knitted away like a Madam Defarge, occasionally stiffening the men's backbones with her cry: "We strike!" Meantime the Guild's senior members were being polled, voting overwhelmingly for a strike if negotiations broke down. In prospect was the extraordinary spectacle of the cinema's top celebrities marching in picket lines outside studios and theatres. Stuntmen and cowboy actors prepared to organize a troop of 300 horsemen...
...Prime outward evidence is the 5,600-strong Guild, to which virtually all film actors and actresses belong. Last week's strike faced the Guild with its first big test of Labor solidarity. President Montgomery swiftly summoned his executive board, including First Vice President Cagney, Second Vice President Joan Crawford and Assistant Secretary Boris Karloff, who decided to postpone decision on a sympathetic strike until a mass meeting could be held, meantime left the question of passing through picket lines to individual decision. At the mass meeting, some 4,000 solemn-faced cinemactors voted to wait another week before...