Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as matters remain witty, "Foolish Notion" is a remarkably edifying Play Javishly spiced with fast patter and an air of fantasy. Tallulsh's Sophie slinks along through three acts, charging each gag line with the solid note of Bankhead innuendo; Joan Shopard, recently of "Tomorrow the World," nearly steals several scenes as Happy, Sophic's quipping adopted daughter. During the rare moments when wit is forgotten and Barry's heady continuity fumbles, Miss Shepard comes to the rescue with extremely competent timing and humor sense for a performer of her years. Once or twice in the opening...
...with duties as consultant on fashions and grooming. Rarely do my duties embrace more than that. It is not true that I set up deals between David O. Selznick and his players and, specifically, I have never had anything to do with contract negotiations between Mr. Selznick and Miss Joan Fontaine. I do not, as you intimate, attempt to read Miss Fontaine's mind, nor do I under any circumstances, anywhere, at any time, act as "pipeline" or report "powder-room conversations...
...plot, like something out of Arabian Nights, takes Robert Hutton, amorous Yale man in "Janie," rapidly from New Guinea, to the Hollywood canteen, the arms of Joan Leslie, and almost the altar, before a troop train arrives to carry him off. The story's main excuse is to try to form a link between the musicalia, which appear every ten minutes. Like "Thank Your Lucky Stars" and "Thousands Cheer," this movie is just an unoriginal variation on the star parade theme...
...another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck's. Indeed it is hardly necessary for Emil to try to murder his young cousin (Joan Carroll) to convince everyone that he is, in fact, a symptom of a very ugly kind of social disease, a possibly incurable human being, at twelve...
...Woman in the Window (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett; TIME...