Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passion of Joan of Arc" is the exception that proves the rule--the rule that movies are not art. In fact, it is a bit unfair, without this foreword, to call "Joan" a "movie," for "movie" connotes squawking, sexy, sentimentality, while "Joan of Arc" is history and literature...
...picture, which deals with the trial of Joan for witchery is an artist's, not a historian's, attempt to strip the legend-wrapped saint and discover the simple peasant girl that was the real Joan. She lives in the pages of Mark Twain and of Shaw, but she moves and breathes more convincingly still in the superbly restrained portrayal of Mile, Falconetti...
...Dartmouth seniors disposed of the song situation very effectively by choosing Rudy Vallee as their favorite movie actress. Although the vagabond lover became involved in a close race with Joan Crawford, it is comparatively safe to assume that the majority of student movie goers are in close accord with the final verdict of the Nougat critics...
Puttin' on the Ritz (United Artists). This is a highly conventional film musical comedy, but so well produced and ably cast that if its lines and situations were new it would be the year's best picture of its kind. Irving Berlin's tunes, and such smart players as Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle, and Lilyan Tashman are arranged in support of Harry Richman, Manhattan night-club entertainer, who has never made a picture before and who is suspected of having negotiated his engagement to Actress Clara Bow to make the cinema public curious to see him. The story...
Anyone who has not yet become acquainted with Corey Ford's rebuke to Joan Lowell, "Salt Water Taffy", will still find it well worth their while. Then there is "Ex-Husband" which followed with more alacrity than true conjugal consideration on the heels of "Ex-Wife". But there seems to be a certain comparability nevertheless, for the value of either of these books is doubled and tripled by the other. Incidentally, "Ex-Wife" was selected as one of the 50 best examples of good bookmaking for the year 1929-30. Donald Ogden Stewart has contributed handsomely with a take...