Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vaughan, Joan Heath...
Walter de Havilland, 69, father of Cine-stars Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine (1941 Oscar winner), turned up in Denver with his Japanese second wife, Yoki, looking for a job. Saying that neither of his daughters would have anything to do with him because of Yoki, he added wistfully: "I guess Olivia is worth about four million dollars...
Died. Mary MacSwiney, Irish Sinn Feinnef, sister of Terence MacSwiney, onetime mayor of Cork; after long illness; in Cork. A would-be Irish Joan of Arc, she lived through many a hunger strike, unlike her brother, who died of his in 1920. To the bitter end she spurned Eamon de Valera and his compromise Free State...
...foreign correspondent to be--which is more like a side-show barker than anything else. And although to some people his jowls and teeth make him look like a Walt Disney rabbit, especially when he smiles, he can probably be considered handsome in the bargain. Then there is Joan Bennett, who is horribly cast as a well-bred English girl, and who meets the Rabbit Man n --how did you guess it--a blackout. In addition there are numerous other stock characters, all of them nobly and courageously going about their jobs amid the bursting of bombs and the falling...
...Actor: Gary Cooper (for Sergeant York, in Sergeant York); actress: Joan Fontaine (for Lina McLaidlaw, in Suspicion...