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...Florence (Morgan), decides to have Cellini (March) killed, for fighting with a Medici. The Duchess (Bennett) wants him to remain alive until he has finished some gold plates for her banquet to the Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while the Duke is entertaining...
...Basil Zaharoff married 55-year-old Maria del Pilar Antonia Angela Patrocinio Simona de Muguiro y Beruete, Duchess de Villa-franca de los Caballeros. Unable to divorce her insane husband Prince Francisco de Bourbon, Duke de Villafranca de los Caballeros, cousin of Alfonso XIII, for over 30 years she was Sir Basil's mistress, lived with him during her last years in the villa near Paris built by the late Leopold II, King of the Belgians, for his morganatic wife Baroness de Vaughan. Lady Zaharoff died...
...devoted to her surly absentee husband. Sinister Mrs. Forgate, who has a reputation as a husband-poisoner, watches with a cold eye the passionate friendship between her gigolo Antonio and the Keatsian poet Dacbe. Lad Greengable, godlike lifeguard with literary leanings, and Jacqueline, mannish musician, look longingly at Sylvia. Angela Flower (recognizable caricature of Aimee Semple McPherson) shouts hoarse evangelism through cocktail parties. Sol Mosier, neurotic antique dealer, pines for new sensations...
...Greengable goes off to Europe to drown his love for Sylvia in dissipation. Jacqueline puts her discords into music. Sol has the happy thought of poisoning his wife; unfortunately he overindulges and she dies. Angela discovers a simple soul who believes he is Jesus; under her tutelage he acts the part. Arthur Brisbane writes: "So Jesus has returned! Millions all over the world will welcome the news. Other millions will wonder what He is going to do about international debts, politics, taxes, love, prohibition and the grasping public utilities. But whatever happens, you may rest assured that California, as usual...
...mood hovers between the realistic and the romantic; at times, when actionless dialog makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna (Louise Closser Hale) giving her a brooch when she enters the convent...