Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Howard Sharp, once an opera star, now a singer in tenth-rate Mexico City night clubs, gets involved in an argument with a bullfighter over a prostitute, takes her home, is invited to act as bookkeeper and chauffeur for a disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls and lightning flashes, Howard sings, attacks...
Married. Francis Bolton Mallory, 37, onetime editor of Life, onetime husband of Cinemactress Nancy Carroll; and Carlota Lobato, 14, his fourth wife, daughter of a Mexican realtor, whom he met fortnight ago; in Acapulco, Mexico...