Word: altars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursued by two sets of indignant parents determined to stop them. Once thrown together, the girl's uppity parents and the boy's homespun folks take to each other so enthusiastically that they turn to playing Cupid when the youngsters bicker and part short of the altar...
...lets a brand-new maid cook a meal that will kill him. Dead in a jiffy, he turns ghost, is joined by the shades of an Indian maiden, a Southern belle and a concert pianist. For two more acts, while the flesh & blood housemaid and doctor amble towards the altar, the four spirits aimlessly cavort about the stage...
...planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also pegs the film's picaresque hero without a wasted motion. Stewart Granger is the Raffles of art-clever, nonchalant, cynically aware that the painting is on loan from a church altar, so thoroughgoing a rascal that he not only carries on an affair with his henchman's wife but uses the husband's unwitting help to break it off when his interest flags...
Bartered Bride. In Maria Stein, Austria, when Farmer Matthias Volker's betrothed said no at the altar, he turned to the guests, asked for a volunteer, was quickly taken up by his faithful ex-housekeeper...
Shaw, whose hasty marriage record includes Lana Turner, Kathleen Winsor and Ava Gardner, announced that he was going to try a cooling-off period this time before going to the altar. Said he: "For the first time in my life, I'm engaged." And, he asked, what is wrong with trying marriage again? "Just because I intend to marry for the seventh time, you'd think I was guilty of something...