Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leaving "Girl Trouble" all you remember is Don Ameche's mustache and those teeth. Joan Bennett's there too, and they have plenty of trouble. Maybe soon Tyrone Power will do a "Life of Don Ameche...
...healthy base for any story, and Warner Bros. have used it healthy. Old-timers melt sentimentally at the song and dance routines, that bring them back to World War I days, and the picture may even manage to convince live agers that the old boys had something. Joan Leslie provides the artistic requirements neatly, and Walter Huston and Richard Wherf do nice jobs as well. Cagney even hurdles a cane a la Cohan, and gets over it safely...
...Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with a diaphanous light suggesting England...
...story of "Suspicion" concerns the psychological progression from love to fear of Joan Fontaine for her husband, Cary Grant. Grant, a handsome, witty, but rather poor social parasite, meets Miss Fontaine, of a psuedo-Clivedon Set, and they marry...
Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" is now, a year after its original triumph, recognized as one of the better pictures to come out of Hollywood, or more specifically, from the RKO studios. Joan Fontaine, Academy Award winner for her work in this film, plays opposite a surprisingly serious Cary Grant...