Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Only Jerry Kilty, in the curious role of the Fool, and Thayer David, in the part of the feeble old Earl of Gloucester, the subplot equivalent of Lear, make really individual contributions. Peter Temple is sturdy and even humorous in the essentially mechanical role of Kent Jan Farrand and Joan Croyden are highly successful in differentiating the wicked daughters, Regan and Goneril, but at the expense of an over-feline Regan by Miss Farrand...
...Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, who journeyed to Gstaad, Switzerland, with her newborn daughter, Princess Yasmin. There she and her husband, Prince Aly Khan, enjoyed a family reunion with her five-year-old daughter Rebecca (by her second husband, Cinemactor Orson Welles), and his two sons by a previous marriage (to Joan Yarde-Buller), Karim, 13, and Amyon...
...reproduce. Church groups, women's clubs, legislators and local censors in more than a dozen states joined in demands that the picture be banned. At least one movie exhibitors' association urged its members not to book the film. Movie bigwigs ordered a sequence of Actress Bergman in Joan of Arc snipped from a screen anthology of famous historical scenes...
...Ruth (Joan Caulfield) is married now to her wartime beau (William Holden), but her meddlesome bobby-soxer sister (Mona Freeman) is still meddling. This time Mona puts Holden up for state senator without his knowledge. The rival candidate: her father (Edward Arnold), With Holden taking an interest in the campaign and family feelings already strained, the script drags a redhead across his trail to alienate his wife. Then it goes on alienating the moviegoer...
...Wife is played largely on the comic level of such crude gags as the eye that blackens right after the punch. One bright spot: Radio Announcer Harry von Zell trying desperately to get a cheery broadcast out of a family breakfast table where no one is speaking. Holden and Joan Caulfield are likable enough, and Mona is all too convincingly irritating. Comedian Billy De Wolfe deserves to work on television, where he could be turned off at will...