Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robinson, Joan Bennett; TIME...
...call from the Daily News to cover it. She promptly bought the Astor diary for $500, made the trial the sizzling success of the '30s. Her other top stories were the Pantages, Clara Bow, the Errol Flynn and Chaplin trials. On the Chaplin story Florabel went to see Joan Berry at the Beverly Hills police station, advised her to retain Attorney Jack Irwin, thereby sewed up the best source. Other reporters rewrote her, or didn't write...
...Woman in the Window (Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett; TIME...
Johnson starts his story like a batter lazily warming up. Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), a humdrum family man, stops on the way to his club to gaze at a glamorous portrait in a gallery window. When the portrait's model (Joan Bennett) turns up and they fall into conversation, the professor feels he is on the brink of adventure. Throwing caution to the winds, he goes to her apartment-quite literally to look at etchings. But when the girl's lover bursts in and attacks him, Wanley in self-defense stabs him to death with a pair...
Died. Richard Bennett, 71, famed actor, father of Barbara, Constance and Joan; after long illness; in Los Angeles. Indiana-born descendant of a line of Methodist preachers, he was brilliant in many hits (Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, Anderson's Winterset). Like his good friend the late John Barrymore, he was a notorious eccentric (his alleged favorite sport: frightening Boy Scouts). He characterized himself as "an honest actor within my limits, counterfeiting as conscientiously as I know how the spurious creatures of the drama...