Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Bennett decided that the time had come to change ly-year-old Daughter Diana's last name again. It was'Fox when Cinemactress Bennett was Mrs. John Fox, then Markey when she was Mrs. Gene Markey; now that she is Mrs. Walter Wanger, she wants a Los Angeles court to make Diana a Wanger...
...With It? (book by Sam Perrin & George Balzer; music & lyrics by Harry Revel & Arnold B. Horwitt) boasts some pleasant tunes, picture-pretty Joan Roberts from Oklahoma!, and enough young enthusiasm to keep it running for some time. The plot revolves around a meticulous young insurance actuary (Johnny Downs) who joins a traveling carnival. This combination should inspire some flights of insurance-company satire or some gay carnival horseplay; but neither keeps the show off the ground for very long...
...Joan Crawford is back on the screen, but to no avail. She cries, she laughs, she loves, she hates, but she fails to make "Mildred Pierce" more than an over-emotional whodunit with a psychological mother-daughter angle...
...central idea is that Joan Crawford, in the title role, will do absolutely anything for her daughter, who is a most unpleasant female. This, of course, leads Miss Crawford into all sorts of difficulties, but she never realizes to the bitter end that it all would be much neater and happier if she killed her daughter about a third of the way through the movie. The film's detectives might condemn her, but the audience would...
...differences between Gershwin's terrestrial and cinematic lives are many, and in every instance Gershwin managed it better when he was alive than the script writers have done it now. For instance, Gershwin never had any spectacular loves. In an attempt at rectifying this, he has been provided with Joan Leslie and Alexis Smith, and has one or the other hounding him at every turn...