Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeping porch for the tenement district and a cyuosure for sightseers, but as a battlefield of crime and bestiality, a sink of dissipation. The picture starts with a theft of hotdogs by two hungry, penniless young lovers. A pair of racketeers pretending to be detectives whisk the girl (Joan Blondell) away to the Central Park Casino, force her to aid their scheme for robbing the till of an unemployment benefit. Her young man (Wallace Ford) finds out about the crookery in time to catch the criminals by chasing them through the park in a high-powered...
SHAW (Bernard) Saint Joan. Mint...
HAGGARD (H. Rider) Joan Haste. Scarce...
...whose grandmother was a Kaw princess. He got his first taste of vice-presidential privacy when, morning after election, he alighted from the Santa Fe's crack train, The Chief, in Chicago and was ignored by two newshawks and three cameramen sent to the station to cover Cinemactress Joan Bennett's arrival on the same train. Back in Washington he put on a brave smile and went about his business as usual. After his first call on his unlucky running mate at the White House, he was asked if the campaign had left him in debt. His chuckling...
...combines in himself the righteousness of a Father Confessor, the diction of a bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only do what they are told, but do a good bit of real acting besides...