Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as the R.K.O. Alumni Association, for R.K.O has let more talent slip through its fingers than it has kept. Examples: David Selznick (now de facto head of United Artists), William Le Baron (now sparking 20th-century Fox), Sam Briskin (who has helped put Columbia into the big money), Joan Fontaine (whom R.K.O. once had for practically nothing a week—as Hollywood salaries go—but had to borrow back last year at $75,000 for Suspicion), Katharine Hepburn, Jack Oakie, ired Astaire, Ginger Rogers...
This Above All (Joan Fontaine, Tyrone Power, Philip Merivale; TIME, June...
Prue Hathaway (Joan Fontaine), upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...
Whatever its shortcomings as a kid-glove social document, This Above All is a remarkably good love story. WAAF-Girl Joan Fontaine, who has what it takes to play lady-in-a-haystack, quietly meets her man (Mr. Power) in the blackout, goes away with him to a seaside resort, where he leaves her, eventually rejoins him for keeps after the Luftwaffe has almost battered his brains out in a London bombing. It is a restrained, sensitive, appealing performance-a tribute to beauteous Joan Fontaine, to the intelligent direction of Anatole Litvak, and to the painstaking coaching of Director Alfred...
...were not long in replying. Next day the 450-foot aerial masts of Radio Paris, 130 miles south of the capital near Bourges, were dynamited. For the first time since Hitler took Paris, the principal outlet of Nazi radio propaganda in France went dead. To many a Frenchman, St. Joan seemed by that act a little more alive...