Word: adventuresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from the dead in the great romantic tradition last week came China's glamorous black-banged Butterfly Wu, the fragile cinemactress but durable adventuress, who was supposedly killed by flying shrapnel in the siege of Hong Kong last January. Wu-wooers were relieved: they had feared that a fabulously Asiatic career had ended. The Butterfly's beauty and talent had moved her on & up 1) from the studio of a maker of obscene postcards, 2) to the arms of Henry Pu-yi, stooge ruler of Manchukuo, 3) to the arms of Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang...
...sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple up and roll down...
Boudoir (by Jacques Deval, produced by Jacques Chambrun) told of a Manhat tan adventuress of the '80s whose assorted bitchery was finally ended by the strangling hands of an Egyptian jewel thief. The play had blackout dullness inconceivable from the author of the glinting comedy Tovarich...
...Adventuress (20th Century-Fox) is a remake of a French film of the same name and a lively demonstration of what Hollywood experts can sometimes do to make a trite story into a thoroughly entertaining picture. The experts are Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director Gregory Ratoff. The story is about two Continental con men (Erich von Stroheim & Peter Lorre) who work the better resorts and the grander hotels until their lovely confederate, the fake Countess Vronsky (Zorina), falls in love and marries one of their well-to-do victims (Richard Greene). Then they go to work...