Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown Eyes (Paramount) presents a new kind of cinematic criminology and a new Joan Bennett. The criminology revolves around a private detective who found a margin of profits in his employment as a liaison between insurance companies and the underworld, from which the companies were interested in recovering stolen gems to obviate payments to their clients. Morey (Walter Pidgeon) is the private detective of Big Brown Eyes, working with an associate whose crimes include infanticide. The Big Brown Eyes are Eve's (Joan Bennett), who has been transformed from a quiet type into a slangy manicurist whose assured deportment...
...Hours by Air (Paramount). Rocketing from Newark to San Francisco in a bullet-nosed Boeing are an heiress (Joan Bennett) rushing to intercept her sister's marriage to a cad; the cad's brother (Fred Keating); a bad little boy, his water pistol and his caretaker (Zasu Pitts); the customary gangster, the sleuth trailing him; a transport pilot (Fred MacMurray) returning to duty from a canceled vacation...
...dither of vernal gaiety that Mr. Dwight Wiman has brought to the Shubert Theatre one of the very best musical comedies in many a pasteboard moon. It's called "On Your Toes" and if it falls to hang the S. T. O. talisman outside its New York queue, George Joan Nathan is Pollyanna's brother...
...many a critic, Saint Joan is the lone instance in which the world's cleverest playwright discards the brakes of self-consciousness and permits himself one glorious swoop of spiritual freewheeling. In common with the body of Shaviana, Saint Joan turns on an agile inversion. But this inversion, the definition of a miracle as an event which creates faith, seems to spring from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade...
Actress Cornell has surrounded herself with a high-powered troupe of actors, among them Brian Aherne, Charles Waldron, Arthur Byron. Another excellent performance is turned in by Kent Smith as Dunois, the''Bastard of Orleans. He it is who witnesses Joan's first military miracle on the banks of the Loire, when the wind shifts so that the French may attack the English by surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that...