Wild is the 'wind' Nov 9, 2009
Jean Arthur and Paulette Goddard made the finals ... Jean Arthur and Paulette Goddard made the finals. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Hollywood’s love affair with aviation has had its ups, downs Oct 18, 2009
Somehow Jean Arthur, at the height of her girlish adorability, ends up in their midst. So does Grant s ex-flame (Rita Hayworth), who s now married to a disgraced pilot (Richard Barthelmess). (Boston Globe)
Screwballs Let Loose On DVD Aug 4, 2009
Jean Arthur is represented by the breezy "If You Could Only Cook" (1935), which was fraudulently marketed in Europe by Columbia as a film by her frequent director Frank Capra ("You Can't Take It With You"), even though it was actually helmed by William A. Seiter. Arthur plays an unemployed woman who talks a man she meets in the park (Herbert Marshall) into posing as her husband so they can get jobs as a cook and butler -- not realizing he's an auto magnate. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (Aug. 2) Aug 2, 2009
Jean Arthur finds herself legally married to both Fred MacMurray and Melvyn Douglas in Too Many Husbands (1940), part of a two-volume grab bag that also spotlights Rosalind Russell, Irene Dunne, and Loretta Young. (Sony, $24. (Boston Globe)
Author revisits 'Gone With the Wind' Apr 12, 2009
A feminist film critic, she earned her spurs with her book "From Reverence to Rape" (1974), which defended the "woman's film" and argued that Hollywood's image of women had regressed, from the strong, take-charge characters of the 1930s and 1940s - the ones played by Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck and Jean Arthur - to the Doris Days and Bond girls. You can't escape your raising, though, and Haskell, born in Morehead City, N.C., was raised proper in old-time Richmond, Va. (Athens Banner-Herald)
