Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women and handsome men. bright-eyed before the topmost awards: the "Oscars" that signify which of them, in the opinion of their peers, have talent, too. There were so many stars in view that nothing anybody could do-neither an uncivil singing satire by Angela Lansbury, Dana Wynter and Joan Collins, nor some oddly tasteless quips by Bob Hope-could keep the movies from running off with television's highest rating of the season, and some 85 million viewers...
Divorced. By Joan Caulfield, 36, blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth) and sometime TV star (My Favorite Husband): Frank Ross, 54, Hollywood producer (The Robe); after nine years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...season's premiere on July 10 will be Twelth Night, with Miss McKenna as Viola. July 30, she will appear as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. The Irish actress made her American debut in the title role of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan...
...gradually, with the nagging suspense of a husband discovering a wife's infidelity from scattered clues, the reader realizes that Joan is not what she seems to be. She is, in fact, glibly promiscuous, invulnerable in her amorality. After a fashion, she has a code, and as she spells out its principles the reader will recognize in them the authentic touch of countless other Joans: any mistake is instantly righted if only one admits having made it; promiscuity is permissible if only it is covered with the illusion of being in love. In short, Joan is "a girl...
Irresponsibility. For a while, Carl and Joan cling to each other in a sort of unprincipled camaraderie: up to a point, Carl shares her lazy indifference to consequences, her pretty-eyed irresponsibility toward everyone, including oneself. But in the end, he makes his break. Along the way, Author McLaughlin (A Short Wait Between Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust...