Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest money making stars of 1932-33," picked by 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's annual poll: Marie Dressier, Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Eddie Cantor, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mae West, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford...
...married and never was." In Hollywood, Katharine Hepburn lives on a chicken farm with her friend Laura Harding, goes to no parties, calls herself an exhibitionist because she likes to wear overalls to work. When she returns to cinema, she will perform first as Queen Elizabeth, later as Joan...
...deals with the Atlantic City convention of the Honeywell Rubber Co. President J. B. Honeywell (Grant Mitchell) is to choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell about...
Dancing Lady (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A burlesque dancer named Janie Barlow (Joan Crawford) meets a jaunty young socialite named Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). He sees to it that she gets a front line position in the chorus of a deluxe revue. The revue's dance director (Clark Gable) observes that she has talent and enthusiasm, makes her the star...
...than Warner Baxter in Warner Brothers musicals. Franchot Tone takes his burlesque girl to his country home with more snobbish head-wagglings than those used for similar purposes by Buddy Rogers in Take a Chance. In her serious characterization of Janie Barlow as an inspired, warm-hearted runaway angel, Joan Crawford makes thoroughly apparent the fact that she is now abler as an actress than as a dancer. Good shots: Robert Benchley as a Broadway colyumist, languidly asking for a pencil; the start of Dancing Lady's flashiest musical number, with Fred Astaire going through routines which Joan Crawford...