Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Chaplin by his long-awaited blood test proved that he could not have been the father of Joan Berry's four-months-old daughter. Miss Berry went into hysterics. Said her lawyer, John J. Irwin: "I believed all along that my client was telling the truth." Next day he suggested that Chaplin might have tampered with his blood. Experts immediately declared such a dodge impossible. Lawyer Irwin resigned. U.S. Attorney Carr continued his prosecution of Chaplin. Asked whether Joan might have to go to work now that she was cut off from Chaplin support, her mother answered...
Phantom Lady (Universal) is the maiden production of Joan Harrison, who used to be Alfred Hitchcock's Girl Friday and who now becomes one of the few women producers in Hollywood's history.-Phantom Lady lags behind Hitchcock's best films, but it has picked up enough from them to sprint laps ahead of most thrillers...
...Asked in what respect she differs from other Hollywood producers, Joan Harrison, 34, tilts one blonde eyebrow, grins, and replies, "I use my sex.;' When, against Universal's better judgment, she became a Universal producer, the studio sent around a photographer to immortalize the event. "Well," snapped Miss Harrison, "do you want some leg art?" (see cut). Besides using a pair of ah-inspiring legs, she also uses a mind trained at the Sorbonne, at Oxford, and by England's shrewdest director...
Charles Chaplin was indicted by a federal grand jury for two violations of the Mann Act. The comedian, who married 18-year-old Oona O'Neill last June, was charged with "causing to be transported Joan Berry ... by railway . . . with the intent and purpose of having the said woman engage in illicit sex relations . . . [Indictment 1] from Los Angeles to New York" and [Indictment 2] in the other direction. Joan claims that he fathered her four-month-old daughter Carol Ann. The grand jury also accused Chaplin of conspiring with others to influence Beverly Hills Judge Charles Griffin...
...story about the long-suffering governess who finally marries Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), the melancholic and irascible squire with the mad wife. There is little success in capturing the Brontean intensity of atmosphere and of character which should have made the novel a natural screen romance. As Jane, Joan Fontaine is too often merely tight-lipped and pale-perhaps because Orson Welles so seldom gives her reason to be anything else. His Rochester is fairly amusing as a period-act; but an act is not acting and Novelist Bronte's Rochester is not meant to be amusing. For Cinemactor...