Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ginger Rogers and five other clotheshorses were touted by Fashion Designer Ray Driscoll as his favorites for the backhanded title: Hollywood's Worst-Dressed Women. Proclaimed Driscoll: Ginger "doesn't dress." Betty Hutton "wears too much of everything." Joan Leslie "tries to dress like a teen-ager." Judy Garland "dresses like a tired clubwoman." Betty Grable wears clothes "too tight and too short...
...recent years, is a lacy, frail, sweet Miss Susie. As an earnest but queasy would-be surgeon living in her house, hulking Sonny Tufts, Exeter-and-Yale-educated in real life, acts with unusual restraint. The inevitable local-professor's-pretty-daughter is talented, wide-eyed, blonde Newcomer Joan Caulfield. The plot complications are tried & true, but the medical-school atmosphere seems reasonably authentic-and the medical schoolboy humor is good-natured and not too grisly...
...Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most of the characters talk and act like damyankees; the scenery is strictly studio-lot Georgian; there are apparently not more than...
...plain-&-simple bathos. Before he is through, Director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire, an Indian massacre and a trained collie. But the dialogue somehow holds up under the strain, and there are a few wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress Garson, frequently cast in heavy-heroine or merely mealy parts, carries off her role with sparkle. But the steady gleam of the picture...
...trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner. By 1934 he had made It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert, and with the won the Academy award...