Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sudden Fear (Joseph Kaufman; RKO Radio) finds Joan Crawford in something of a predicament. Her actor-husband (Jack Palance) is trying to murder her by running her down with his convertible on the hilly streets of San Francisco. This homicidal urge, it seems, dates back to the time when Joan, a playwright-heiress, turned him down for the leading part in one of her plays because she felt he was not romantic enough for the role. Shortly afterwards, she apparently changed her mind because she decided to marry him. She puts him up in her elegant home overlooking...
...lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman Templar de Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) in a savage battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with thousands of Saxon archers hurling themselves across the moat and swarming up the granite-grey walls while the Normans shower boulders down on them from the battlements...
...Ivanhoe, Robert Taylor makes a parfit gentle knight and troubadour, while Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine are the very models of ladies fair. Supporting them are some polished character actors: Emlyn Williams as Ivanhoe's faithful Squire Wamba, Finlay Currie as Ivanhoe's father Cedric, Felix Aylmer as the patriarchal Isaac of York, father of Rebecca, and a whole host of Normans and Saxons, knights and squires, lords and ladies and kings and commoners from the days when knighthood was in flower...
...organic chemistry at the University of Chicago, is currently in the research department of the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. Mary Ann Anderson, 26, won a scholarship at Mundelein College, writes advertising copy for a Chicago drug company and teaches English and composition in the evenings at Loyola University. Joan Bishop, 25, has sung in Carnegie Hall, with the Chicago and San Carlo opera companies, and in the better Manhattan night clubs. Gerard Darrow, 19, who hates publicity and therefore never attends any Quiz Kids get-togethers, majors in music at James Millikin University and is described as a "very normal...
Born. To Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, 36, and Director Roberto (The Miracle) Rossellini, 46: twin girls, their second and third children, her third and fourth, his fourth and fifth. Names: Isabella Fiorella (6 Ibs. 15 oz.; 6:30 p.m.) and Isotta Ingrid (7 Ibs. 1 oz.; 7 p.m.); in Rome...