Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barbara Stanwyck got three men and made them all miserable. Joan Crawford only corralled two, but then one was Harvard '06 and the other Yale '26. Perhaps it evens up. The general purport of the two features at the University is that this is no longer a man's world. They were done wrong--and they liked...
...Chained" the Crawford-Gable team goes at it again, and, strangely enough, Clark loses out to Otto Kruger for the moment. But before his magnanimous retreat and final conquest, he and Joan play at sweet nothing's in a boat's swimming pool, in a speakeasy's private dinning room, and in the luxurious hay of a ranch down Buenos Aires way. Stuart Erwin adds his appreciated bit to the general gayety of the sort which Mr. Gable popularized in "it Happened One Night." Of this, unfortunately, there is not enough; and presently the characters find themselves enmeshed...
Allure (by Leigh Burton Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
Paramount and Fenway: "Our Dally Bread"--King Vidor's bold and excellent interpretation of the current of things social and economic. Depicts the back-to-the-farm movement in a moving and vivid style. Also "Kansas City Princess"--Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrel in another of their mildly amusing and risque pictures...
Bowdoin Square: "Dames"--This picture stars Ruby Keller, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, and Zazu Pitts. The latter supplies her usual quota of laughs, and the picture as a whole is well worth seeing. The companion picture will be the "Cats Paw", Harold Lloyd's latest film. There are also five acts of vaudeville...