Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beverly Hills. He was introduced with confident graciousness by California's Republican Governor Earl Warren ("We like his frankness . . ."). Wallace assured the moviemakers that they would get more business by "understanding the unexpressed hunger in the souls of moviegoers." But Academy President Walter Wanger (producer husband of Joan Bennett), with only a bit part on the program, got the biggest hand. He put aside his scheduled talk, and attacked the Alliance: "Let's keep the record straight. We, too, find home-grown communism as odious as home-grown fascism. . . . [But we do not] intend to be misled...
...January midday sun poured down on Monrovia's Matilda Newport Square, named for Liberia's Joan of Arc. Sweat trickled down 20,000 Liberian backs, stood in heavy drops on the foreheads of notables who were clustered in the shade of a palm-leaf booth. Five little girls in white-frilled ginghams held wreaths emblazoned with the names of Liberia's five counties. Six brass bands blared hard and the Liberian National Choir waited its turn. The tiny African Republic, founded for freed slaves from the U.S., was ready for the inaugural of its 17th President...
...Joan Blondell, bouncy cinemarmful whose eight-year-old marriage to Crooner Dick Powell (her second) has been one of Hollywood's most sunnily publicized unions, announced that she would sue for divorce, reissued the dated doggerel she had indited after her first divorce...
...blue-eyed Alice Ealand, ex-model, said he had offered to star her in his next picture. Six months after his marriage to 18-year-old Oona O'Neill (his fourth), six weeks before the blood test which can clear him of ex-Protégée Joan Barry's paternity charge, Chaplin announced his next picture's subject. He will do the story of Bluebeard, with an "amusing angle." Miss Ealand, newcomer to Hollywood, said she would appear as the wife whom Bluebeard-Chaplin does not do away with...
Bennett in-laws and ex-s turned up at Manhattan's glittery El Morocco, opened the nightclub shindy season. Joan and Barbara are not on speaking terms. Joan, her Producer-Husband Walter Wanger and party entered and found Barbara and Actor-Husband Addison Randall. Then Tenor Morton Downey, ex-of Barbara, joined Joan and party. Barbara and husband departed with Roszika Dolly and husband, but soon returned for a Welsh rabbit. Randall slipped and fell, or was tripped and fell. His in-laws and party laughed. Randall marched over to the in-laws and issued a challenge to Downey...