Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Acre became the first U.S. Penguin to sell a million copies. But Penguin, along with a smattering of mysteries, has consistently put out first-rate titles (e.g., Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine; Shaw's Pygmalion, Saint Joan and Major Barbara), and neither of Penguin's rivals has ever tried to make a quick quarter sale of Greek or Roman masterpieces...
Hollywood Players (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS). The Constant Nymph, with Joan Fontaine...
Screen Guild Players (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, with Joan Fontaine...
...features Jane Russell) and John Ford's handsome My Darling
Clementine. Still to come: ¶ Walt Disney's Pecos Bill, another mixture
of cartooning and live action, with Roy Rogers and horse, Trigger. ¶Winchester 73, Walter Wanger's oater-with-psychology, starring Joan
Bennett.
¶| Frank Capra's Pioneer Woman.
¶J Cecil B. De Mille's Unconquered, involving Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard in flying
tommyhawks.
¶ Warner Bros.' Calamity Jane, with Ann Sheridan.
¶ Paramount's California, with Ray Milland and Barbara Stanwyck.
...philosophical overtones about faith-which blot out the earlier and sharper issue of compromise-Joan of Lorraine is too trickily written, too full of backstage triviality, too discontinuous in its drama to be more than a serious stunt. Yet Joan's story, even when told piecemeal and with no particular eloquence, can still vibrate when enacted by someone suggesting Joan's stature-as Actress Bergman proves...