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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past few years, Doug, who calls himself an "international commuter," and his Virginia-born second wife (the former Mrs. G. Huntington Hartford, who succeeded Joan Crawford) have been more & more selective about the guests they choose to share their dining room. Abandoned are the ostentatious parties for 300 or more which Doug once gave in honor of such friends as Noel Coward and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. At No. 28, The Boltons, in fashionable South Kensington, the Fairbankses now confine themselves to more intimate affairs with a guest list whittled down to a mere 30 or 40. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: By a Little Finger | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott's novel made into a rousing medieval horse opera; with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine (TiME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Ivanhoe (M-G-M). Sir Walter Scott's novel of the days when knighthood was in flower; with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CHOICE FOR 1952 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...bringing Oscar Wilde's classic 1895 comedy of manners to the screen for the first time, is a highly stylized, dryly amusing production. The British-made film is faithful to Wilde's play, which is a triumph of triviality: Playboy Jack Worthing (Michael Redgrave) loves Gwendolen Fairfax (Joan Greenwood), whose cousin, Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison), loves Jack's ward, Cecily Cardew (Dorothy Tutin). But because of Jack's ignoble habit of representing himself as his imaginary brother Earnest and Algy's adoption of Earnest's name and wicked reputation to speed his courtship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Importance of Being Earnest | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott's novel made into a rousing medieval horse opera; with Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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