Joan Didionjournalist, novelistBorn: 12/5/1934Birthplace: Sacramento, California Journalist and novelist who worked as a features editor at Vogue (1956–63) before becoming a freelance writer…
Joan PlowrightactressBorn: 10/28/1929Birthplace: Brigg, England A stage actress of distinction, Plowright has performed most of the major roles in the classical theater repertoire. She made her…
Joan Allen
actressBorn: 8/20/1956Birthplace: Rochelle, Illinois
Film and stage actress whose film credits include Face/Off (1997), The Ice Storm (1997), The Crucible (1996), Nixon (1995), and…
Joan Chenactress, directorBorn: 4/26/1961Birthplace: Shanghai, China Chen has found critical and commercial success in Hollywood, Hong Kong, and China. Her film career began in China, at age 14, when…
Said to have succeeded Leo IV. Gibbon says, “Two Protestants, Blondel and Bayle, annihilated her;” but Mosheim seems half-inclined to believe there was such a person. The vulgar tale is…
A loving, old-fashioned, virtuous couple. The names belong to a ballad written by Henry Woodfall, and the characters are those of John Darby, of Bartholomew Close, who died 1730, and his…
Joan LittlewoodAge: 87 British theater director and producer whose Theatre Workshop staged such offbeat productions Brendan Behan's The Hostage, Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, and the…
Joan BoveAge: 99 with her first husband, Lawrence Gelb, started the hair-products company Clairol in the early 1930s after discovering the hair-coloring solution in France and introducing it…
Of Joan's YouthLouise Imogen GuineyI would unto my fair restore
A simple thing:
The flushing cheek she had before!
Out-velveting
No more, no more,
On our sad shore,
The carmine grape, the…
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