Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Headliners of Kosleck's show were four savagely misogynistic caricatures of famed Hollywood ladies. While he gave each her measure of good looks, he satirized her character with surrealist trimmings. Joan Crawford's portrait was titled The Most Beautiful Still of the Month, showed her attitudinizing in front of a bed like any tragic stenographer. The Merry Widow showed Jean Harlow in widow's weeds, holding an apple stuck on a knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled...
...least one film actress, Binnie Barnes, is credited with a larger shoe than Greta Garbo's ? 7½AA. A cursory survey of other foot sizes produces the following: Claire Dodd 7AAA, Helen Vinson 7AA, Joan Blondell 6C, Marion Davies 6B, Carole Lombard 5½A, Norma Shearer 5½A, Jean Harlow...
...were supposed to have had training and to show great promise. Miss Garden selected 51. Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people as Mrs. Charles H. Swift (Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher...
...Married. Joan Diehl, 23, daughter of President Ambrose Nevin Diehl of Columbia Steel Co.; and Henry John Heinz II, 26. son of President Howard Heinz of H. J. Heinz Co. ("57 varieties"); in Manhattan...
...Joan Crawford's big-boned, over-dieted frame, breezing in & out of clothes, has the appeal of cold turkey. Her laborious refinement and sincerity are expertly relieved by the acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...