Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WAVES, might just as well have been titled Encores Aweigh. The film follows three sailorettes through boot camp, where the activities seem to consist mostly of swimming, singing and dancing in Technicolor. Esther Williams is a spoiled society girl who left her bridegroom languishing at the altar; red-haired Joan Evans is a small-town girl who was stood up at her wedding; blonde Vivian Elaine is a salesgirl with a Brooklyn accent...
...Santa Monica, Producer Walter Wanger, husband of Cinemactress Joan Bennett, decided against a jury trial and threw himself on the mercy of the court. Last December, convinced that Actor's Agent Jennings Lang had more than a 10% interest in his wife and was breaking up his home, Wanger sent Lang to the hospital with a bullet in the groin. Since Lang appeared to be recovering nicely, the court considered the mercy plea, reduced the charge (shooting with attempt to murder), and sentenced Wanger to four months, with a recommendation that the time be served on the county honor...
...guilt and redemption rages the outward action of the book. In 1348 the Black Death tore through Bedesford like a cyclone; fewer than a third of the townsfolk survived. Then came the plague of the fallow deer and the flood of the Wode. Yet Edwin and Jeanne, Jack and Joan, Alfred and Juliana went on working and breeding, and soon the fields were up to mark again and the population almost normal...
Other incoming officers are Margot Sproul '53. Vice-President: Joan Avery 54. Secretary; and Joanne Bailey '54, Treasure...
...first and most amusing part of the picture concerns the chemist's search for a job in a textile firm and subsequent explosive experiments in the research laboratory. After Guinness thinks he has perfected the material, the film bogs down when the boss' saccharine daughter (Joan Greenwood) falls for him and wheezes her way through a mawkish, one-sided love affair...