Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last half of 1933. only four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...
...when she is 20 and shows no sign of stopping when the picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord ups the rent and Vergie's radio breaks down...
...situation between Laura, John and Vergie nothing happens until young Joan is old enough to marry; then Laura Shadwell tells her that she is a foundling. In a rage. John Shadwell asks Laura to divorce him, scuttles off to Vergie's house. Laura follows him with a revolver, shoots him dead, runs away. Vergie Winters takes the blame. Laura confesses on her death bed. Vergie gets a pardon...
...soon found ourselves in company with the fisherfolk having a grand time as Joan Crawford and her flock of suitors pranced merrily through "Sadie McKee" which luckily comes to the State today. Of course, the other film with Zasu Pitts and Ned Sparks was much more amusing. In fact even the merits of a portrayal of Arnold Rothstein or the demerits of the propaganda extravaganza, "Stand Up and Cheer" are more satisfactory for comment but alas they won't have a double bill at the State...
...Bedford seemed to like Sadie but the reception which an exhausted undergraduate body will accord her seems more doubtful. We are quite sure that she can't supply the relaxation that Zasu Pitts and her privy chamber would but she has her good points. Joan Crawford, who makes a very lovely Sadie, plays a demanding part; a maid in a wealthy household, the unfortunate heroine of a love affair which doesn't quite come off a chorus girl, the wife of a millionaire and finally a sweet young thing. For her suitors, there is Franchot Tone who outrages her sense...