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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year run as a radio show starring Lucille Ball. In moving the show to television, CBS's West Coast vice president in charge of network programs, Harry Ackerman, searched hard and long for a properly glamorous pair of young marrieds. He finally decided on Hollywood's Joan Caulfield ("She has some kind of half-woman, half-gamin, half-childlike quality that is perfect") and Broadway's Barry Nelson "He's the handsome, rugged American male"). Like most family comedies, Husband is long on character, short on plot, and played for laughs. It does buck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Perpetual Honeymoon | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Married. Joan Naomi Benny, 19 adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone; and Seth Baker, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; she for the first time, he for the second; in an evening ceremony, followed by a mammoth, $50,000 reception where some 600 guests (including Ethel Merman, Tyrone Power, Bob Hope) consumed 420 bottles of champagne, 700 Ibs. of squab, 600 Ibs. of beef tenderloin; in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Drumbeats and Song netted gross profits of $3,112 from this year's production, Joan Rubinstein '56, treasurer, announced yesterday. This is an increase of $212 over last year's receipts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drumbeats Profits | 3/18/1954 | See Source »

Durable Cinemactress Joan Crawford hopped off a train in Manhattan, allowed that the weather was colder than it was in home town San Antonio, where she had dropped off for a visit, then rushed away to have "a little fun in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...well he can stay on it even when the driver falls asleep. But he weaves and ambles, with no real sense of where he is going, and he offers such comic dialogue as "Would you hazard a guess as to the duration of the cogitational period?" As the heroine, Joan Tetzel can only be violent and affected as a way of seeming upset. As the successful suitor, Tom Helmore has far better methods of seeming nonchalant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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