Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the other pictures scheduled to be shown by the Film Society is "The Passion of Joan of Are," a silent film which ranks with some of the best contemporary sound films. This picture, directed by Carl-Theodor Dreyer, was produced by La Societe Generale de Films...
Walter Houston, Joan Leslie, and Francis Langford play supporting roles effectively, but it's Cagney's show from beginning to end. He dominates it as completely as Cohan would probably do if he were there. When the time for handing out prizes rolls around. Cagney's performances ought to give him a running head-start. And the movie won't b far behind...
Granting General and Mrs. Hoge so much vision and foresight reminds us all of Joan of Arc's dream before her departure for Chinon. We believe that it is undue, and feel sure that even the General will not like it, as he must be aware that a Fairbanks resident, Donald MacDonald Sr., has worked the project over in every shape and form for 13 years, thus acquiring the flattering title of "Father of the International Highway...
Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...
...good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez, and a delightful young lady named Joan Tetzel who, as a coltish adolescent, is quite the most lovely and refreshing thing that Boston has seen in months...