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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 30, onetime husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; and Mary Lee Epling Hartford, 28, onetime wife of Chain-Store Scion (A & P) George Huntington Hartford; in Westwood. Calif. Best man: Douglas Fairbanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Cinemactress Joan Crawford (real name: Lucille le Sueur), 33; from Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 34; at last, after the judge had refused to grant a "proxy" divorce, required Mrs. Tone's appearance "in person"; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...nothing at all. The marbles they talk about are the lively glassies and marididdles that determine the annual marbles championship of England, oldest sporting event in the Kingdom. Through 18 reigns, since a day in 1588 when two village Hodges played for the favors of a red-cheeked Joan, a marbles match has been held in the courtyard of the Greyhound Inn on Good Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Tinsley Green | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Next day, Gable was back at work and the Gable-Lombard romance took its place among Hollywood classics of its kind-Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford (divorced), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Crawford (divorced), John Barrymore and Dolores Costello (divorced), Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard (undefined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boy Gets Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...their "proxy" divorce hearing in Los Angeles, Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone met at Manhattan's swank "21," embraced tearfully, dined together, later danced fervidly together at a night club. Next morning Judge Benjamin Scheinman denied Actress Crawford's deposition charging Husband Tone with "extreme cruelty." Said the judge: "The courts in this State look with disfavor on mail-order divorces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1939 | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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