Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. For this music-hall documentary, Joan Littlewood hits where it hurts with laughter by blending sentimentality, song and satire. A marvelously adroit cast, led by Victor Spinetti, plays the men and women who lived, joked and suffered through World...
...JOAN D. LADD...
...Have love as you do this thing," cooed Folk Singer Joan Baez, "and it will succeed." It was a battle cry, not a ballad. Marching behind their Joan of Arc, who was wearing a jeweled crucifix, a thousand undergraduates of the University of California at Berkeley stormed four-story Sproul Hall, the school's administration building. For 15 hours they camped in the corridors, whanged guitars, played jacks, watched Charlie Chaplin movies. Stairwells be came "freedom" classrooms. An alcove was a kitchen where coeds made thousands of sandwiches for the all-night siege. The school had locked the bath...
...shall keep that promise." One-third of the Berkeley faculty signed a telegram to Kerr and Strong urging amnesty for the four students who face punishment, and 5,000 students staged a rally outside Sproul Hall to hear speeches, strike appeals, and a final folk song in Portuguese by Joan Baez...
Sure enough, it's Elvis Presley. Just after the film begins he oozes up to his carnivalentine (Joan Freeman) and attaches that mouth to her face. She staggers back in alarm, but the old softie (Barbara Stanwyck) who owns the show takes a liking to the lunk and pays him to sing pretty for the people. He doesn't sing very pretty, but there are compensations-when he starts singing he stops acting. Anyway, just before the film ends Elvis presents a fairly stiff upper lip, pays off the mortgage, gets the girl. "Git closuh," he instructs...