Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Those Endearing Young Charms (film) borrowed from Paramount to direct. Other roles went to RKO contract players. Principal photography on "Those Endearing Young Charms" took place from early January to-mid-February 1945. "Those Endearing Young Charms" was released on June 19, 1945, by RKO Pictures and made a profit of $644,000. "The New York Times" film critic Bosley Crowther in his review of "Those Endearing Young Charms", wrote, "... there's no point in passing critical judgment on an obviously artificial script, on slickly mechanical direction and performances in a make-believe style. The audience with which this writer saw the picture yesterday was made up, quite obviously,