Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...
...pronounced Joan) has recently decided to call himself John. The Jōan has led to mishaps. Once he got a form letter from Frank Sinatra which assumed that Jōan was a girl, and how about a new fan photo...
This version of the love story of the Austro-Hungarian royal heir (Harry Stockwell) and his unroyal Marinka (Joan Roberts) furnishes a good deal more low comedy than high romance. It is told without style or period elegance, in a lurching effort to reconcile antics with atmosphere. As a result, the Alt Wien of 1888 and the Broadway of 1945 constantly collide, and neither wins out. The whole thing merely smacks of something in between the two-operetta the world over, circa...
Rhapsody in Blue (Robert Alda, Oscar Levant, Joan Leslie; TIME, July...
...Juan Quilligan (20th Century-Fox), a study in the farcical consequences of bigamy, examines the temptations which beset a none-too-bright barge captain (William Bendix) at each end of the Brooklyn-Utica haul. In Brooklyn, Captain Quilligan falls for a barmaid (Joan Blondell) who laughs and sings just like his sainted mother (rest her soul). In Utica, he is hopelessly enmeshed by a homebody (Mary Treen) whose cooking is more wonderful than anything the captain has tasted in the ten years since mother passed on (rest her soul...