Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, a manufacturer decided to publicize a system of perfuming shower baths, got Starlet Joan Barton-recently voted among the 13 best-dressed U.S. women-to take off her clothes and stand in an aromatic spray...
...Macomber Affair. Hemingway's savage sex war, in which Robert Preston is bested by Joan Bennett, with the aid of Gregory Peck, a lion and several buffaloes (TIME, April...
...members only, who paid from $15 to $50 a season to look on), put on three premieres. The Minotaur was a well-conceived but not always well-executed marriage of classical myth, classical and modern dance (by John Taras), modern music (by Elliott Carter) and modern art (by Joan Junyer). In Zodiac, weak music and dance were overpowered by blinding costumes and sets. Highland Fling, in which sylphs run in & out of an interminable Scottish wedding to faintly Scottish and vaguely dissonant music, was an unhappy case of incompatibility...
...Macomber (Robert Preston) is a good shot but he lacks courage in a crisis and the sportsman's sense of honor towards his quarry. Besides, he talks too much about himself. The hunter (Gregory Peck), on the other hand, is everything a Hemingway hero should be. Mrs. Macomber (Joan Bennett) is not slow to choose between them nor delicate in showing her preference-in several almost unbearably ugly scenes of cruelty and humiliation. Under the pressures, Macomber finds his courage for the first time in his life. Finding it, his life really begins and his abjectness towards his wife...
Some sort of sign of stability was recorded, however, in the announcement that for the third year in the row, Joan Crawford had been awarded the Poon's humh-in-nose accolade as the "Actress with the Most Toes in the Grave...