Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frank and homegrown air which both U. S. and foreign audiences recognize as essentially American. In spite of her two marriages (moderate for Hollywood) she represents the American Girl, 1939 model-alert, friendly, energetic, elusive. Less eccentric than Carole Lombard, less worldly-wise than Myrna Loy, less impudent than Joan Blondell, she has a careless self-sufficiency which they lack. As a dancer, Ginger Rogers has been immensely improved by her association with Astaire, who works out the routines for most of their numbers, then teaches them to her. She now has no screen rivals...
...indirect consequences of the dance craze launched by the Castles was the Charleston, which broke out in 1925. One of the consequences of the Charleston was a series of Charleston contests which raged in all U. S. cities in 1925 and 1926. These Charleston contests bred Hollywood stars (Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard) as swamps breed mosquitoes. When little Ginger Rogers won a State Charleston contest in Dallas in November 1925, her destiny was settled...
Brand Pinker, who helped Conrad, Arnold Bennett and D. H. Lawrence cut their publishing teeth, Eric Pinker took over his family's lucrative U. S. business in 1930. Since then he and his partner-wife, Actress Adrienne Morrison (mother of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett), have captivated many a literary tea. Shocking it was, therefore, when angry old Author Oppenheim accused Eric Pinker of withholding $21,000 owed him for U. S. publication of his works...
...back on the reliable formula of the show within a show. Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford, as a pair of professional skaters (who never skate), achieve fame in the movies. Silliest sequence: Stewart's heroic farewell to his skating partner (Lew Ayres) when their act breaks...
Also on the program is "Off the Record," set in a newspaper office that actually resembles a newspaper office, and concerning the attempt of Joan Blondell and Pat O'Brien to reform a criminally inclined youngster, played by Bobby (Dead End) Jordan...