Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact is that Anderson has managed to make his "Joan" a worthwhile evening's playgoing, though, characteristically, he has tacked, veered, and in places turned back on himself, in trying to achieve this end. His device is to present as the heroine an actress who finds herself becoming one with her role of "Joan," and reading into her offstage life some of Joan's ethical dilemmas. While this plot frame is not palpitatingly new, Anderson constructs within it some striking situations. We have here, then, a morality play, and just so you'll be sure to get his point, Anderson...
Viewed simply as a divertissement competing for attention with local movies and plays, Maxwell Anderson's "Joan of Lorraine," which last night began a week's stay at the Brattle Theater, is certainly worth a visit. To regard the current offering of the Cambridge Summer Theater otherwise, is to get involved in bootless speculation on whether Bergman wouldn't have quirked an eyebrow here, or whether Shaw didn't render the line more felicitously there...
Possessed. An involved and rather sudsy psychiatric story, acted with conviction by Joan Crawford and Van Heflin (TIME, June...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan in an intelligent triangular thriller, well directed by Jean Renoir (TIME, June...
...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war between the sexes with Robert Preston, Joan Bennett and Gregory Peck in fine African settings (TIME, April...