Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role that Jimmy Stewart could play blindfolded, hog-tied and in the bottom of a well. He gives it all the best Stewartisms, and modestly allows adequate working room to Copilot Eddie Albert and half a dozen other skilled troupers (notably Roland Young and Willard Parker). As a comedienne, Joan Fontaine tries out a new set of mannerisms, most of which seem to have been borrowed from Jean Arthur...
...none of its gloss in translation from a slick-magazine serial to the screen. Smoothly mounted, directed and acted, it is a pat little story about a painfully earnest flyer (James Stewart) who is running his small-time airline straight into bankruptcy. Then he takes aboard a runaway millionheiress (Joan Fontaine...
...long, protective arm of coincidence. He discovers that he has an exact double in town-a Dr. Bartok, psychoanalyst. Jittery Gangster Henreid decides to murder Psychoanalyst Henreid and take over his job beside the couch. He learns, through hard experience, that neuroses can be as dangerous as guns. Joan Bennett is the doctor's pretty, hard-boiled secretary. She and Henreid have some fairly good dialogue to exchange and they frequently pour real warmth into their roles; but neither can quite cover up the empty echoes in Hollow Triumph...
...Joan of Arc. Ingrid Bergman in a big, expensive, earnest retelling of a great story. Technicolor (TIME...
Pecking over the keyboard are the 12 "Riffs": (left to right) Nancy Ryan '52, Betty Ralph '49, Alice Nelson '51, Kay Matthews '51, Felicia Reed '52, Marianne Piazza '50, Micheline Martin '49, Mary Morgenthall '51, Joan Bennett '52, Linda Cabot '51, Dorothy Lloyd '51, and Carmen Huse...