Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Bennett and producer-husband Walter Wanger informed the press that she would be having a baby come June-to join her daughter by her first husband, her daughter by her second, and her daughter by Wanger...
...Hollywood Women's Press Club voted Gary Cooper and Jennifer Jones the Most Uncooperative Actor & Actress of 1947. Gregory ("always available") Peck and Joan ("affable") Fontaine were voted Most Cooperative (four years ago, Miss Fontaine was wearing Miss Jones's label...
Daisy Kenyan (20th Century-Fox) will probably strike soap-opera fans as a pretty intriguing and knotty Problem Drama. Will Daisy (Joan Crawford), a well-heeled but struggling commercial artist, pry dashing Dana Andrews loose from his rich, neurotic wife (Ruth Warrick)? Or do Dana's little daughters mean too much to him? Or will Joan marry Henry Fonda, a widower and ex-soldier so little in touch with this world that he even forgets to keep a date with...
...eventually does), will she ever manage really to forget Dana's extramarital embraces? And will Henry ever be free of his dead wife, and of the reverberations of the war? And if Dana's wife at last gets around to divorcing him, and he comes after Joan, which man will she choose? Or will she choose either? To Dana, and to most of the audience, all this looks easy. But you never can tell about women...
...principal roles are obviously cut out of slick paper. But Joan Crawford knows as well as any movie star how to make such a manhandled heroine into a magic mirror for women moviegoers. Henry Fonda is a shrewd comedian, in spite of having to play that eternal Lost Little Boy who unleashes skittish maternal emotions. Dana Andrews, a most talented actor, has to call someone "honeybunch" umpteen times in this show, yet he never fails to make it a more or less fresh revelation of character. Director Otto Preminger is expert at the glossy details that are useful to this...