Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commander William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 47; Hannah Williams Dempsey, 31, ex-musicomedienne, ex-wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn (son of the late financier Otto); after ten years, two separations; in White Plains, N.Y. She is his third wife (second was Cinemactress Estelle Taylor) and mother of his two children, Joan Hannah, 8, and Barbara...
Reunion in France (M.G.M.) is a Joan Crawford version of the fall of France. As history is made, Miss Crawford looks big-eyed, weeps, sighs, registers disillusionment, at length throws her 'elegantly gowned self into the French underground movement-all with unclear effect. Whatever it is, it is not France...
When last week's script called for Joan to kiss Vallee, Rudy started to make the usual hand-to-lips sound effect, Joan yelled: "None of that! I've waited over a year for this." Resoundingly she smacked the blushing Vallee while the studio audience roared...
...lesser lady than Joan might be unnerved by the verbal shellacking dished out to her by the Vallee scripts. Joan says she finds solace in a whacking pay check. Her income from radio and movies (prior to the $67,000 limit): about $100,000 a year...
...Joan Davis is the daughter of a St. Paul train dispatcher. At nine her voice was already strained from an amateur overload of singing, reciting, quipping. When her parents moved to Los Angeles, Joan signed for three years on the Pantages vaudeville circuit. Her partner (in a vaudeville act of unalloyed corn) was Si Wills, who soon became her husband. Quitting the road in 1936, Wills & Davis settled in Hollywood. In the next six years Joan graduated from cinema bit parts to featured parts...