Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belafonte was the first Negro to perform in such plush nightspots as the Eden Roc in Miami and the Palmer House in Chicago. He is the only American Negro to be cast in a romantic movie role opposite a white actress (Joan Fontaine in Island in the Sun). He has not only crossed some color lines, but a great many other lines as well. His appeal is remarkably independent of age or sex. In a recent concert in Pittsburgh, he packed the hall with steelworkers. symphony patrons, bobby-soxers and schoolchildren. When he toured Europe last summer for the first...
Live ones, after a 135-m.p.h. plunge into freezing water and the swift current, were few. First Officer Frank S. Hlavacek, 33, clung weakly to a crumpled wing. Passenger Robert Sullivan, 8, bobbed to the surface with his dying mother, looked vainly for his father and two sisters. Stewardess Joan Zeller, 21, floated limp and badly injured. Despite the rescuers' heroic toil, there were only eight survivors -five passengers and three crew. The others-65 in all-died in the crash...
...Where Highway Patrol's Broderick Crawford roars about in a squad car and Whirlybirds' Ken Toby and Craig Hill soar through the sky in a helicopter, Actor Dane Clark as Shannon plows through the waves in a 62-ft. sloop. Dockside waits his nubile ward, played by Joan Marshall, whom Writer David Friedkin describes as a "lovely, whimsical, gay, arrant broad in love with a virile guy-only he doesn't want to get married...
Idle Fear. Her travels have taken Siobhan from Broadway (The Chalk Garden, The Rope Dancers ) and off-Broadway (Saint Joan) shows to London movies
...Golightly's "presumption.'' Capote tongue-lashed back: "I have never met nor seen this lady . . . It's ridiculous for her to claim she is my Holly. I understand she's a large girl nearly 40 years old. Why. it's sort of like Joan Crawford saying she's Lolita...