Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late last summer 16-month-old Joan Anderson of Washington, D.C. came down with nephrosis, a sometimes fatal kidney disease which doctors don't know much about. One thing the medical men do know about the disease: if a nephrotic catches measles, the patient often improves (why measles sometimes acts as an antidote is another thing the doctors don't know...
Douglas, Keenan Wynn, Joan Davis and Arthur Treacher work to make the film's burlesque of gangster customs fitfully amusing, though it is never good enough to offset a phony love story that insists on taking itself seriously. As the truculent brat who poses as the bigshot's son (and who is intended to be lovable), Peter Price is the last, unspeakable word in precocious delinquency. Students of U.S. movie morality, noting that the t gangster's innocence of any actual killing qualifies him for a hero's fadeout, may be forced to conclude that racketeering...
Divorced. By Joan Blondell, 40, durable blonde cinemactress (Model Wife) : Third Husband Michael Todd, 42, Broadway producer (As the Girls Go); after three years of marriage ; in Las Vegas...
...unlovely Communist functionary of Tours, was up for trial on a charge of obstructing a military train bearing arms for Indo-China. The party press hailed her as the "little angel" and the "delicate heroine of peace." Some of the comrades spoke of her as a latter-day Joan of Arc, and doubtless imagined her triumphantly burned at the stake...
...French Communists have recently been playing up Joan of Arc as a nationalist symbol of resistance to Anglo-Saxon (U.S.) influence in France. On Joan of Arc Day last May, Communist factory girls and housewives laid a wreath at the foot of Joan's statue in Paris...