Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jack Dempsey sent Manhattan newspapers five studio poses of his daughter Joan Hannah Dempsey, aged 7 mo. 24 days...
Because Crosby, a Yankee, lazily, dislikes gunplay, he declines to duel with a Southern blackguard. In the next few minutes he loses his fiancee, excites the love of her sister (Joan Bennett), is summarily ousted from the plantation of their father. He joins a show boat run by Fields, a Mississippi River commodore who claims to have been an oldtime Indian fighter. When Crosby succeeds in publicly mauling and accidentally shooting a bully, Fields improvises a few lies, turns the crooner into "The Notorious Col. Steele, the Singing Killer...
...Cabin Kids and three good songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart: "It's Easy to Remember," "Down By the River," "Soon." Fields is at his best in a poker game sequence in which he frantically draws ace after ace when he already holds four. Curiously for cinema, Joan Bennett is cast in a role which requires her to make the initial declaration of love, the first request for a kiss...
...allowed to sing and move about harmlessly. These he does to the satisfaction and enjoyment of all. The humorous element of the film is well carried on the capable shoulders of Mr. Fields, who is at his best as the blustering show-boat captain, boasting continually about his bravery. Joan Bennett is adequate in her role as the leading lady...
...sitting in the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Composer Deems Taylor was able to witness both the operatic début of his 8-year-old daughter Joan and the establishment of an endurance record by his Peter Ibbetson, first U. S. opera to remain in the Metropolitan's repertoire for four years. Daughter Joan, self-assured, mimed the part of Mimsey Seraskier, the child of groping Peter's dreams. Backstage she spent most of her time studying school homework...