Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...changed from I Married a Nazi, owes its impact to a simple and startling idea. The idea is to show Hitler's Germany not through the eyes of a German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...
...Most cockeyed cult of all is the Mighty I AM Presence. Last week I AM's leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters) for mail frauds were 24 of them, headed by Mrs. Edna Wheeler Ballard ("alias Joan of Arc, Jesus and Lotus Ray King") and Donald Ballard ("alias Edona Eros, Robin Hood and Lafayette...
...month hotel suite, of her mother-in-law buying "clothes enough to stock a store" and two $50 corsages of orchids daily, appearing at I AM meetings with a 12-carat diamond ring, an 18-carat diamond breast pin, many another "love gift" from believers. Retorted "Joan of Arc": "We have never asked a human being for a dime to carry on this activity, through the mails or otherwise. . . . We have offered only good and love for America beyond all words to describe...
...Rebecca (Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith; TIME, April...
...Rebecca (Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, C. Aubrey Smith; TIME, April...