Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent green-sick girls from swooning over Frank Sinatra. Aping their shameless sisters, mewling boys have begun to give the same treatment to Sinatra's partner on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade (CBS, 9 p.m., Sat., E.W.T.). It has been the best break that auburn-haired, delectable, showbusinesslike Joan Edwards ever...
...paid much attention to Joan until she took time out last fall to have a baby. When she returned, the audience in general gave her the big hello. And the boys out front, perhaps partly to kid the Sinatrians, "began to moan and groan" over Joan. The antiphonal chorus bids fair to become a national pastime...
...Parade recordings, shipped to darkest New Guinea (complete with audience mooings over Joan), have moved jungle G.I.s to delighted imitation. San Francisco has a Moan-&-Groan-over-Joan Club. Other clubs just whistle. All this has upped Joan's salary to $750 weekly...
...Niece. Joan's voice is no more remarkable than her rival partner's, but like him she has learned to handle it with mellow finesse. Her family (their name was once Simon) has been in show business for half a century. Her father is a music publisher. She has a brother and an uncle who are songwriters. Another uncle is Showman Gus Edwards. The family kept Joan's nose to the piano until she was 16. At Hunter College she majored in music and minored in psychology, taught piano and sang on the radio...
...more money in radio, and anyway, I'm waiting for television"). She gets along so well with Sinatra that when his crowding fans tore her dress recently, Sinatra called for a needle & thread, knelt down and sewed it up. "Did a very neat job, too," says Joan...