Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors, are out to make it. To draw the crowds, most theater managers are trying to buy big Broadway and Hollywood names for their barbershop-window posters. Most sought-after star: Tallulah Bankhead. Most popular plays: Dream Girl and Joan of Lorraine...
...Universal-International) suggests that James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan in an intelligent thriller (TIME, June...
...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage version of the war of the sexes, with Robert Preston, Joan Bennett, Gregory Peck (TIME, April...
Possessed. A rather sudsy psychiatric story, acted with conviction by Joan Crawford and Van Heflin (TIME, June...