Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked as if TV had made a major raid on Hollywood talent. Joan Crawford was on television playing the suffering wife of an unfaithful husband; Marilyn Monroe was cavorting on Jack Benny's show; Ava Gardner, as the mystery guest on a quiz program, was answering embarrassing questions ("Are you married and are you happy about it?"); Loretta Young, Ray Milland and Joan Caulfield were turning up each week on their own programs; Arlene Dahl, Ray Bolger, Agnes Moorehead and young Brandon De Wilde were beginning big TV roles...
Bible with Guts. But television has enthusiastic converts. Says Joan Crawford, who has plans for a series about a lady columnist ("I'll definitely do the commercials, in a dignified way"): "When [television] is not badly photographed and when it is on film which I can own, I find it extremely attractive, because it pays for itself and then becomes an annuity for my children. How else can you save money these days?" John Wayne, one of Hollywood's top box-office draws, "is very much for TV," has plans to produce his own TV films. Kirk Douglas...
...Things were so slow at M-G-M that Joan Crawford, working on Torch Song, had the full use of three dressing rooms...
After Jack Dempsey, onetime world's heavyweight champion, announced the big news, photographers in Santa Monica, Calif, snapped his 19-year-old daughter Joan (by his third marriage to ex-Show Girl Hannah Williams), with her fiance, Dennis O'Flaherty, 21, a Loyola University student. They will be married this week, said Dempsey, in a ceremony (just "a few friends") in Los Angeles...
Kinsey married Clara Bracken McMillen in 1921, when she was a graduate student in chemistry and he a young assistant professor of zoology at Indiana. Prok and Mac, as he calls her, have raised three children (a boy died in infancy): Anne, 30, married to Warren Corning of Chicago; Joan, 28, married to Dr. Robert Reid of Columbus, Ind. and Bruce, 24, a graduate business student at Indiana U. Mrs. Kinsey, a wiry, tweedy woman with neat black hair, now greying slightly, has gladly subordinated her life to her husband's career. As she once innocently expressed...