Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Worthing, Michael Redgrave alternates between dignity and degeneration, as he commutes between his country home and city apartment. Richard Wattis, his face, in an interminable, self-satisfied pucker, also has a dual identity, keeping the two separate with a bit more verve than Redgrave. Joan Greenwood and Dorothy Tutin are the befuddled fiances of the two slightly dishonest gentlemen. Both are ridiculously prim and appropriately fatuous...
...island in a peaceful invasion, the only real foe they encounter is the girls' prim and proper father (Leo Genn), a plantation owner who is determined to protect his unkissed daughters from the advances of the enemy. But nature takes its course, and the three fun-loving girls (Joan Elan, Audrey Dalton, Dorothy Bromiley) find romance with three personable marines (Gene Barry, Don Taylor, Peter Baldwin). Written by F. Hugh (Kiss and Tell) Herbert, The Girls of Pleasure Island is an unblushingly sentimental fable that is both idyllic and dull. The picture's outstanding assets: the pretty, Technicolored...
...deadly serious British Medical Journal. The B.MJ. had recently pontificated that "spinach would seem to be particularly valuable for the nutrition of children, provided they can be persuaded to acquire a liking for its somewhat bitter taste." Not so, snapped back a London husband & wife team, Physician Joan E. Bamji and Chemist Nariman S. Bamji:' the stuff has too much oxalic acid...
...actresses (including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer and Paulette Goddard) in The Women, Rosalind Russell is the one usually best remembered by the millions who saw the picture. She became firmly established as the idol of a generation of less-than-beautiful movie-going girls who had to use smart clothes and bright chatter to lure men away from more luscious-looking females...
Four years ago, Joan Carmella Babbo graduated from Chicago's Bowen High School. Then she went to college for four years-but not to the academic kind. College for her was a succession of spotlighted floors where she learned to belt out popular songs...