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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this three more major characters (Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Martha Hyer), three other office romances, a script loaded with schoolgirl sophistication and half-aphorisms ("Old is when you know all the answers." "No, old is when you don't even bother to ask the question"), and an understandably bored performance by an old Hollywood pro, Director Jean Negulesco. The result is just about the dullest retelling of the old cautionary tale since Bertha, the Sewing-Machine Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Divorced. Whitelaw Reid, 46, onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; by Joan Brandon, 29, whose mother, Dorothy Brandon, was a Washington-bureau staff member of the Herald Tribune; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...decade Adrian set the pace for women's fashions across the U.S. and even to Paris, made Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that any right-thinking woman would have given her eyeteeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...JOAN HAAS Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 7, 1959 | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Since that December evening in 1904, when Maude Adams and Gerald Du Maurier originated the roles of Peter Pan and Captain Hook, some of the greatest English-speaking actors have been charmed in taking to the piano wire or donning an iron claw, including Eva LeGallienne, Joan Greenwood, Jean Arthur, and Mary Martin in the title role; and Alastair Sim, Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, and Cyril Ritchard as the evil pirate Captain...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: Peter Pan | 8/13/1959 | See Source »

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