Word: adventuress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following Theodora to Lynnfield was to show her that she was inhibited. Having followed Grant to New York, Theodora made it her business to show Grant that he was in the same predicament, only more so. She moved into his apartment, scandalized his family by behaving like an adventuress, contrived to become corespondent in not one divorce suit but two. By this time, Grant's repressions were as thoroughly shattered as her own and the secret of Caroline Adams identity had made red-ink headlines in the Lynnfield Bugle. When Theodora returned there, she found Grant and a brass...
...pleasantly surprising, perhaps, is to see Marlene's ability with comedy. She no longer stoops to conquer with her legs, but none the less her dignity in this picture is dropped from the grand tragedienne level. Comedy is throughout the sustaining force. From the point at the beginning where Adventuress Dietrich bumps together the heads of a jeweller and a psychiatrist, in order to get away with a gorgeous string of stolen pearls, to the point at the end where those same two dupes are joyful witnesses at the wedding, the atmosphere is charged with worldly, debonair mirth...
...pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ann Harding does not suffer in this one. Instead, still copiously exuding sweetness, she is cast as an adventuress so notorious that reporters storm her cabin when she returns to the U. S., so impoverished that bailiffs immediately thereafter denude her studio of furniture, so dashing that Robert Montgomery, editor of a magazine called Every Week, is ready to pay $20,000 for her biography. Ghostwriting her memoirs, he endangers the career of Edward Everett Horton, candidate for the Senate. Horton will lose the election if Every Week reveals the part...
...naturally considers Eadie a guttersnipe adventuress. Young T. R. decides to marry her. Paige senior arranges a scene in which Eadie, back in Manhattan, is publicly photographed in negligee in the embrace of a grinning stranger. Eadie retaliates in kind when old T. R. is about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige...