Joan Hunter Dunn beauty, he fell in love, and composed a 44-line poem fantasising about them being engaged and playing tennis together in Aldershot: The poem was published in Cyril Connolly's "Horizon" magazine in February 1941. Betjeman invited her to lunch, and presented her with a copy of the magazine containing the poem, begging her forgiveness. In an interview in "The Sunday Times" magazine in 1965, illustrated with photographs by Lord Snowdon, she said: "It was such a marvellous break from the monotony of the war. It really was remarkable the way he imagined it all. Actually, all that about the subaltern, and
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,