Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Works of this genre, known to the trade as "costume plays," were common currency before the war, and even immediately after. (Ingrid Bergman played Joan of Lorraine in the late forties.) Preston is quite right in his statement that, "It's the kind of thing Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne used to do," but I wonder if it's fair to remember that magnificent team for the cheapest of their quasi-historical vehicles. In better moments they could be found performing the works of Sherwood, Coward, Molnar, and Shaw...
...national joke-and the foundation of her fame. But Hopper was known for more than her topper. She continually outreported her rival, spoon-fed the fans endlessly with the trivia that thrills. Through Hedda, the readers learned that Clark Gable had not a tooth in his head, that Joan Crawford's compulsive cleanliness caused her to drop to her hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor during a visit to SAC headquarters. The fans also got a sizable helping of bloopers. "For more than 2,000 years," Hedda once intoned reverently, "Jews and Christians all over the world...
...MANCHA (Kapp). The cast recording of the season's most imaginative musical betrays the play's sentimentality but boasts a tuneful if obvious score by Mitch Leigh, who has composed everything from opera to TV commercials. Joan Diener exaggerates her trollop's complaints as she screeches "One pair of arms is like another," but Richard Kiley as Don Quixote does well by The Impossible Dream and Dulcinea...
Herald writer Joan Hawkes found that "it's in to dress prettily on Wednesday night when favorite faculty members are invited to dinner." "Radcliffe girls are NOT grubby," the article began. Perhaps the lady doth protest too much...
...Married. Joan Hackett, 30, rising Broadway comedienne (Peterpat), currently cast as Dottie Renfrew, a Bostonian of uncertain virtue, in the upcoming film version of Mary McCarthy's The Group; and Richard Mulligan, 33, her leading man; he for the second time; in Manhattan...