Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because of our industrial development," Mr. Wilder continued, "our culture will naturally be different. Let's examine the movies. Of course, the big stars such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford are just figureheads; they do not express real people in any sense of the word. it is in minor starts, such as Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, and Marie Dressler, when she is tened down, that you find American types expressed. As a comparison, you may remember that Hogarth was considered a minor artist when he was actually painting...
...Joan Whitney Payson...
Separated. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr., 24, film actor; and Joan Crawford Fairbanks, 25 this week, film actress; the day after one Jorgen Dietz, Danish chemical engineer, sued Fairbanks for $50,000 for alienation of his divorced wife Solveig's "maliciously debauched" affections and for $20,000 for four hours' false imprisonment last December when Fairbanks charged extortion. Said Mrs. Fairbanks: "The Dietz suit has nothing to do with our separation. We've really been separated a whole year. This is the only brave thing for us to do." Mrs. Dietz in Copenhagen said Fairbanks would...
Helen Keller in a syndicated story told of meeting Writer George Bernard Shaw in Lady Astor's London drawing-room. Miss Keller had been deeply affected by Pygmalion and Saint Joan, waited long in a flutter of hero worship for the great Shaw to wake from a nap. When he came, she groped out her hand, felt a hand "bristling with egotism" take it slackly. She: "I've wanted to know you for ever so long." He: "Why do all you Americans say the same thing?" Her companion tapped his words into her hand. Lady Astor...
...Frankau's drawing room tragedy sharply to life. The picture-in which the title rôle is secondary-can therefore be considered a success; its purpose was to provide a glamorous background for an actress whom experts consider Hollywood's most notable box-office find since Joan Crawford. In her first cinema (A Bill of Divorcement, last autumn) Katharine Hepburn came as close as anyone can to stealing a picture from John Barrymore. Before that she had been a stage actress whose principal talent seemed to be for getting and then losing lead parts in plays like...