Word: joel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More the Merrier (Columbia) is a smart, civilized comedy about wartime Washington's nationally famous housing shortage. It does credit to Director George Stevens (now an Army major) as his last civilian job. It is also a credit to its principals-Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, and especially stoop-shouldered veteran Charles Coburn...
...where he imperially rents half of a three-room apartment from its attractive occupant. Jean Arthur. He obviously considers himself old enough to be her mother, and thus overrides her misgivings. Behind her back, he then proceeds to sub-sublet half of his half to a clean young stranger, Joel McCrea. When Jean's stuffy Government boss takes her out to dinner, Coburn & McCrea sardine themselves into a dismal nightclub only to find that it is the scene of their landlady's tedious date. Coburn draws off the Government bore while McCrea gets to work with the romance...
Girls, "what would you do if you had a job with the Government in Washington and you came home and found Joel McCrea singing in your shower...
Although the Kids (Richard Williams, 13; Harve Fischman, 12; Ruthie Duskin, 8; Joel Kupperman, 6) won in a walk, the victory was no great credit to them or to their sponsors. Most of the questions were pedantically dull, and neither side made a respectable showing. No one knew what an "isometric equatorial projection of a loxodromic curve" was, or seemed to care...
...Joel's I.Q. is so high that the Chicago Board of Education keeps it secret. His mother first noticed something wrong when she heard him lulling himself to sleep reciting the multiplication tables. He was four. When he was four and a half, he caught the grocer short-changing his mother. That amazed her so that she wrote a child psychologist for guidance. The advice was to leave the boy alone. His parents say they did. They do not explain how he found out how to solve cube roots. For every question Joel answers correctly on the program...