Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncle Harry (Universal) is a thriller, produced by Alfred Hitchcock's onetime secretary, Joan Harrison, whose murder thriller Phantom Lady (TIME, Feb. 24, 1944) established her as one of Hollywood's talented producers. Her second offering, a Broadway play adaptation, is again directed by able Robert Siodmak, and again features a vivid performance by Ella Raines. Uncle Harry is better done than its predecessor, more human, subtler, more exciting...
Artist's Salvation. When her friend Joan Harrison offered her the role of Lettie, Miss Fitzgerald wanted no part of it. ("You can see," she says, "I plan my career very carefully.") She knew it was a good role, but she disliked...
...Cents a Dance (Columbia), like Out of the Night, succeeds at once intersely handling an artificial but by no means dull story, and in making its people and their surroundings true-to-life. The story concerns the efforts, of two taxi-dancers (Jane Frazee, Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they...
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...