Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Song of the Flame (First National). Technicolor, elaborate staging, good Gershwin tunes and 5,000 voices have been assembled in this reproduction of a Broadway operetta. Bernice Claire is supposed to be a sort of Russian Joan of Arc; you are led to believe that the theme song she sings brings about the Revolution. It is extravagantly unreal, entirely out of the tradition of naturalistic cinema. Audiences who like operetta and audiences in the country who have never had much chance to decide whether they like it or not may find Song of the Flame to their taste. Others...
Born. To Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, Daughter Joan of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney, sister of Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; a daughter...
Montana Moon is a retake, admirably photographed, of the sort of picture that was known as a "superfeaturerl in the days when all pictures were westerns and when anything was a superfeature that contained more than a straight western story. The novelty is the introduction into ranch life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading as bandits. Finding that the man with a black handkerchief over his face...
...camera. The director has understood the human interest of the human face and its value as an intellectual object. He has made his picture a gallery of churchmen and a saint. It is a succession of strong eye-and-thought-compelling features with intermittently the reaction to them of Joan's remarkable visage. Faces at all angles and distances, but usually as close-ups, character sketches of celluloid. Through the characterizations, medieval in their sincere brutality, rather than in setting a la Hollywood, is the picture placed and dated...
Wagner is played at intervals, a fitting accompaniment to the forceful action. The death of Joan at the stake with the thrilling "Fire Music" playing softly is a masterpiece of drama. So is the whole "movie...