Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Letty Lynton (MGM). The heroine of this picture further enlightens cinemaddicts on the pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors...
...Joan Crawford...
...well filled. In one room lives a ballet-dancer (Greta Garbo) who is bored by her art and her existence. Conveniently near, so that he can filch her pearls, is an attractive and impoverished Baron (John Barrymore). In a corridor, the Baron makes friends with a pretty stenographer (Joan Crawford). She is waiting to take dictation from a disagreeable textile tycoon (Wallace Beery). The tycoon, named Preysing, is so engrossed in dishonest tricks to escape financial ruin that he fails to recognize one of his own clerks. The clerk (Lionel Barrymore) is incurably ill; he has come to the hotel...
...case when ^ a director undertakes to film his own writings. James Cagney is a race track driver with a curious obsession. He loves liquor and what he calls "women," but he is so anxious to segregate his young brother from all such enticements that he hurls a blonde (Joan Blondell) through a doorway, deserts his own mistress (Ann Dvorak) and whacks his brother (Eric Linden) on the face. Subsequently comes the scene in which, to win the Indianapolis Sweepstakes Race, Cagney has to take his brother's place behind the wheel. Good shot: Billy Arnold, real winner of the Indianapolis...
...Married. Joan Bennett, 21, film actress, sister of Constance & Barbara; and Gene Markey, 36, scenarist (As You Desire Me) ; in Los Angeles...