Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman was preparing the ovation for Senator Pepper's radio address. "Clap fast," he ordered, "not slow. Scream & whistle. Pretend I'm Orson Welles." Perfunctorily and apathetically, the 300 delegates in the ornate Boulevard Room of Chicago's Hotel Continental responded. "Pretend I'm Joan Crawford," cried the chairman. The applause was better, but still not good enough. "Pretend I'm Henry Wallace." The delegates to the "Conference of Progressives" tore the roof...
Among those killed by the gestape are Geraldine Fitzgerald, who looks like Joan Crawford, talks like Katharine Hepburn, and gives a restrained and sound performance. As the only woman member of "Applejack" she performs many indispensable tasks, such as working her wiles on German colonels, with admirable results. In fact, her function in the picture is totally professional except for a few mildly affectionate scenes with Ladd squeezed in between auto chases and gun fights...
Monsieur Beaucaire--Bob Hope roaming through Tarkington with Joan Caulfield, at the Met Thursday...
...immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...
...when Hope tries on the mannerisms of a grand seigneur. Hope is a barber forced, for reasons too tortuous to relate, to impersonate the first swordsman and ladykiller of France. He is also supposed to marry the Spanish Infanta (Marjorie Reynolds), though he loves a scullery maid (Joan Caulfield...