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...make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard, as the femme sinistre from Boyer's past, is present to add to the intrigue...
Emigré Boyer's victim is Schoolmarm Olivia de Havilland of Azusa* ("everything from A to Z in the U.S.A."). Against Boyer's liquid-eyed, strong-charm methods she never has a chance: they are married in a jiffy. Wised up by Dancer Goddard, Olivia holds her pretty head so high that her husband realizes he is in love with her. That's all the immigration authorities wanted to know. He gets...
...automobile collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to back and chest. First to recover, Fowler telephoned his agent, offered him 10% of his cuts...
Oakie, who gets fatter, if not funnier, by the day, is cast as a well-meaning, self-important hick from Azusa, who discovers life and love in Greater Los Angeles. Side-kick Tracy is as tough and tight-lipped as ever, and seems just the kind of trouble-shooter you'd like to have fix your worst enemy's telephone. The pair offset each other nicely, and one is very glad that the girls they fall in love with are room-mates, because double weddings, even by a J.P., are such...
...Dame's 16-yd. line -the result of a penalty on Notre Dame for interference, plus a lateral pass and plays against the left side of the Notre. Dame line, plus a stunning burst of determination. Gaius ("Gus") Shaver, Southern California's 185-lb. towheaded quarterback from Azusa, Calif., made a first down on the 16-yd. line. After Sparling made an 11yd. gain around left end, Shaver smashed through to touchdown behind a massed shift...