Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gymnasium classes and afterwards take a shower bath. Two months ago Alhambra's high-school girls moved into a new building, where they had to undress and shower in a big common shower room. This seemed all right to most of them. But not to tall, moon-faced Joan Aveline Lawrence, 16. After one horrid ordeal, Joan refused to shower again in public even if they flunked...
Last week Joan, backed by her father, an engineer, sued for an injunction to restrain the Board of Education from flunking her. Her complaint: the free-for-all shower room 1) is immoral, 2) violates a State law against disrobing in public, 3) encroaches on her Constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
Occasional laugh. But it is uneasy laughter. For the wicked old lady is seen debauching her young granddaughter (Joan Carroll), trying to debauch her teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...
That which makes a masterpiece of "Rebecca," a movie brought to life from a famous plot by good acting, is excellent dramatic photography combined with music well chosen to set the mood for the action. Joan Fontaine brings you to the edge of your chair in the early scenes as she wanders nervously around the great mansion which is pervaded by the ever-lingering memory of her new husband's mysteriously drowned first-wife. The direction of Alfred Hitchcock very nearly matches up to "The 39 Steps" and "The Lady Vanishes," but the plot of "Rebecca" is not as ideally...
...Voices, in the pathetic moments when she becomes terrified of the stake, in the radiant moments when she returns from beyond the grave to find she has become a legend and a saint, Luise Rainer was all innocent girlhood. But she could not spring to life as the other Joan -the fierce and fiery spirit, the obdurate deliverer of her people. Her voice rose, her eyes flashed, her little fists clenched to no avail: the effect was stagy and elocutionary...