Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Modern Age (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In this picture Joan Crawford, now completely a blonde, has the role of a tipsy virgin, a wholesome inebriate who. although often disorderly in an innocent way herself, is appalled when she learns that her mother, a divorcee whom she is visiting in Paris, is being kept by a wealthy Frenchman. When her fiance tells her about it she calls him a liar, neglects to apologize when she learns it is true. Before long a horrid scene occurs. Disgusted at her mother's apparently inveterate immorality, the daughter takes up with a rounder...
...Joan Ridley, an English player but not a member of the Wightman Cup team, got as far as 3-a11 in the first set the next day, when a storm interrupted the matches and drenched 2,500 spectators. Mrs. Moody won the next nine games and the match...
...born in Ontario approximately 40 years ago, one of the 15 children of prolific Thomas J. Lewis of Hamilton. An older sister was the indefatigable tragedienne Julia Arthur (Lewis) who was born four years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and insisted on playing Joan...
...theatre. Barbara, second daughter, was the first to go into the movies, before she became a dancing partner of the late Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father...
...Hearst papers, as is customary, hailed her efforts loudly, her defi ciencies were made more than usually apparent by juxtaposition with the work of smooth, skilful Leslie Howard. The 5? & 10? store tycoon, chief character in the book but not the cinema, is able Richard Bennett, father of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance and Cabaret Dancer Barbara Bennett...