Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seniors invariably choose the New York Times as their favorite newspaper, Joan Crawford as their favorite actress, and Harvard as their favorite woman's college...
...first feature, "Confirm or Deny," presents Don Ameche bringing history up to date as a reporter during the air attack on London of September, 1940. Joan Bennett is pleasant, and the romance is discreetly played down...
Gary Cooper took honors as top actor of the year (for Sergeant York) with 14 votes on the first ballot. His nearest competitor: Orson (Citizen Kane) Welles, 2. Top actress: Joan Fontaine (for Suspicion). Neck-and-neck with her up to the sixth ballot: Sister Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Best Director: John Ford (for How Green Was My Valley)-voted best for the third year running. Welles lost that honor by only two votes...
...Burns, bazookist, was sued for $32,738 by Paramount for not going to work in a movie called Joan of Arkansas. Arkansan Burns dubbed the script "disgusting," commented: "All they know at the studio about Arkansas is what they see in the cartoons of a magazine that sells for 50? and whose name I can't seem to recall...
...demonstrating just what a producer can do to a picture. The acting is perfectly capable, though neither of the leading parts demands a great deal of ability. Cary Grant steps lightly out of his usual character, since in this case he is not entirely a Lovable Fellow; and Joan is much the same as she was in "Rebecca...