Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mouth is big and arranged haphazardly, as if it were something new and unfamiliar, possibly hers only on loan. Her bosom is barely discernible, her legs too straight to be alluring, and she walks like a child in her mother's high-heeled shoes. As an actress, Joan Hackett, 28, does not begin to look the part. But. like the good actress she is, there is hardly a part she doesn't manage to look right...
...Hundred Roles a Day. Joan Hackett is typical of a relatively new and relatively unnoticed phenomenon: the television-trained pro. Before television, actresses whose ambitions ran to serious acting-Margaret Sullavan, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis-got their training in road companies, straw-hat theaters, or in Hollywood's now-all-but-vanished B pictures. Disdained by highbrows as inferior, ignored by serious critics in search of "specials," television nonetheless offers young actors a wonderfully flexible working stage and an audience millions of times greater than anything Ogunquit or Provincetown ever knew. There are a hun dred available roles...
...morosely slapping my baby fat, mourning my acne, and tearfully considering my martyrdom to high school while searching the pages of your fine magazine for a subject for my next current events report in world affairs class, when I happened to find an article in Music called "St. Joan of the Jukebox" [March 15]. It looked interesting, so I read it. Being 16, I find that I am pretty well "over the hill" from the point of view of your article; nevertheless, it touched a few soft spots in my memory. I speak from years of experience, you might...
Whatever happens to Joan Crawford, 45. there seemed to be no room in her future for Pepsi on the Rocks. In Philadelphia with Adopted Daughter Cindy to accept an award from the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women, the veteran screen star, widow of Pepsi Cola Chairman Alfred M. Steele and herself a board member, pooh-poohed those rumors that she might play First Lady to New York's dashing, divorced Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Highly unlikely, said Joan; she has only met Rocky once. Furthermore, "I don't need this publicity, and I'm sure he doesn...
...harmonies, familiar tunes, corny humor and just enough of the folk music spirit to cash in on the most avid adult record buyer-the man whose ear has been tuned by popular music but whose developing tastes lead him to folk music. Where the purer folk singers such as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger alienate some audiences with their austerity, the impure Christys, like the Kingston Trio, win them with the warm good cheer that makes everybody at least a vicarious minstrel...