Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman giving humanity and warmth to a big, expensive, Technicolored pageant (TIME...
Some provocative facts are known. She has been engaged in a long, bitter, on-&-off feud with her cinemactress sister, Joan Fontaine (no one has figured out any specific reason for the ill-feeling, beyond the fact that both are high-strung young women and in a sense professional rivals). She has, during a decade as "Hollywood's Bachelor Girl," been "linked" romantically in the gossip columns with many of the community's most prominent men, from Jimmy Stewart to Howard Hughes. She is suspected of being an "intellectual." She has a hardheaded, serious-minded approach...
...give her complexes to last a lifetime. Her father (in the words of wife Lilian, he "spoke like God but behaved like the devil") decided to leave his wife and marry the De Havillands' Japanese maid. Mrs. de Havilland had already taken Olivia and her younger sister Joan to Saratoga, Calif. There, after divorcing Walter de Havilland, she married George M. Fontaine, manager of a local department store...
...money and a year and a half of her time, during which no studio would employ her. She won the case. For going to war against a major studio (had she lost, it might have ended her career), Olivia has remained something of a Hollywood Joan...
Presidents of the four classes--Luretta Davis '49, Joan Anable '50, Sadja Stokowski '51, and Cherry Merritt '52--and Joan Projansky '49, head of the Student Government Association, as well as other undergraduate officers, will lead the candle lighting ceremony...