Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weakly done: the acting, the direction, the sets, and the plot. Even George Sanders, of whom much more should be expected, fails to rise to the occasion. He plays the part of a villainous usurper by the name of Gurko who is seeking the throne and the hand of Joan Bennett. Joan, however, knows better and with the help of the second of the Cristo line she foils him in every respect. This fellow Cristo (Louis Hayward) is less convincing in his portrayal of virility than is Alice Faye in the role of Virtue Rewarded. The one slightly redeeming feature...
...string of murders on his record who still is shocked when newsmen call him "Mad-Dog" Earle. He is kind to the mongrel dog (Zero) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer (Ida Lupino) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl (Joan Leslie). All Roy Earle wants is freedom. He finds it for good on a lonely peak in the mountains...
...Forest of Compiègne Joan of Arc surrendered to the Duke of Burgundy, Louis XVI received his Queen Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon met his bride, Marie-Louise of Austria. In a railway car in the Forest of Compiègne, 22 years ago last Nov. 11, a delegation of Germans signed an armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. In that same railway car, 2419D, at 6: 50 p.m. last June 22, a delegation of Frenchmen signed an armistice dictated by Germany's Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel...
...night last week an odd assortment of limousines and old Ford roadsters turned into the White House grounds, unloaded some 500 young men & women, all dressed to the gills. They were going to the coming-out party of Joan Morgenthau, slender, athletic daughter of Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury. They were also helping to break a White House tradition: Joan Morgenthau was the first girl unrelated to a President to come out at the White House...
...Franklin Jr., Henry and Bob Morgenthau [brothers of Joan] decided that a party always left happier memory if it came to an end when everybody was still having a good time, so at 3 o'clock the orchestra played Good Night, Ladies. No one paid any attention, and finally Sidney and his orchestra played The Star-Spangled Banner, so that everyone had to stop dancing and join the singing. That ended . . . [the] evening...