Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Fontaine as an elegant Edwardian housewife who kills to get on in the world. (TIME, July...
Possessed. Joan Crawford, Van Heflin and flashes of good moviemaking do a lot for a somewhat vapid psychiatric story (TIME, June...
Early one bright Hollywood day that dawned on rumors of a romance between Joan Crawford and Don Barry, the cowboy actor, Miss Crawford's telephone tinkled. From the other end swooshed a Niagara of italicized insinuation...
...Hello. This is Hedda Hopper. Put Joan on....Hello, Joan?...All right, dear, tell me all about it....Well, he says it's pretty serious. . . . Oh, come on, you can't fool me. Are you in love with him? . . . Now look, dear, I always ask personal questions....Well, how do you get a man to hang that much mink around your neck if you're not serious about him?...I know you're hedging. You can't fool Hopper....Well, you can answer whether you're in love with the guy and intend...
...phone begins trilling almost immediately. It is Joan Crawford, it is Orson Welles, it is Jerry Wald, it is Doris Day, it is Y. Frank Freeman (a Paramount vice president), it is Hedda's great friend Bing Crosby, it is every story "planter" in town. Hedda talks rapidly and constantly, hammering and wheedling angles out of reluctant stars, practically Claghorning the pressagents off the wire. At 11 she calls her secretary, Treva Davidson, and begins to dictate. It takes her about an hour and a half to do 800 words. Sometimes she does two or three columns...