Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby and Astaire but eventually marrying Bing, Mr. Right Guy. After loving him, she leaves him when he irresponsibly sells one after another...
...Washington, only whites were let in to the opening of Maxwell Anderson's new play, Joan of Lorraine. Pickets protested. Star Ingrid Bergman went on with the show, but race discrimination, said she, made the capital a poor place for an opening. Playwright Robert E. Sherwood proposed that the show world teach Washington a lesson. "I believe," said he, "that it is the duty of all of us who work in the American theater ... to protest ... by agreeing that we shall keep our productions out of Washington until the ban against Negroes is abolished...
...Brent) might easily be confused (reasoned Gallup testers) with the drug which whodunit addicts know as "deadly nightshade." After considering and discarding Beautiful Lady, the film's manufacturers have settled on Temptation. ¶ Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett) was temporarily retitled Without Honor, is now definitely known as The Macomber Affair. ¶ Britain's Producer Sydney Box, after buying a current London stage play, hastily registered the title, Dear Murderer, and notified the Johnston Office. Hollywood has regretfully informed Producer Box that Dear Murderer conflicts with...
Nocturne (RKO Radio), featuring George Raft as a deadpan detective, gets by in a superB way, but it will add no gloss to Producer Joan Harrison's shiny reputation (Phantom Lady, Uncle Harry...
...Joan Bennett, who made The Woman in the Window two years ago for $50,000, now demands $100,000 a picture. Dick Powell, who cost $50,000 a picture until this year, has just signed with Columbia...