Word: barmaids
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...Among other women in his life: Revolutionist Angelica Balabanoff; Barmaid Rachele Guidi, his common-law wife (later legal) for ten years; the brilliant exiled Jewess, Margherita Sarfatti; the sisters Maria and Francesca Ferroni; and slim, brown-eyed Claretta Petacci, daughter of a former Vatican surgeon...
Joan is concerned with the present fortunes of Occupied France. Hero Henreid is a Free French R.A.F. pilot shot down near Paris with his bomber crew; Heroine Morgan is a Parisian barmaid who, like a latter-day St. Joan, sacrifices herself that the R.A.F.ers may escape to England...
...story: the real Nancy Hanks, the natural daughter of a well-born Virginia planter, was a pretty barmaid at her Aunt Ann's tavern at Craytonville, S.C. Calhoun, who was just beginning law practice, stopped there often on his way home from court. When Nancy was discovered pregnant, Calhoun quickly admitted his guilt and gave her $500 to leave the State. For a second $500 he arranged to have a trader's hired hand take her home with him. The hired hand was husky, hard-drinking Tom Lincoln. When the trader's wife objected to having...
...Jekyll and Friend Hyde for more than they are worth. When bright Dr. Jekyll decides to put all his evils in one basket by swallowing the laboratory brew which turns him into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...
Only grave, good-looking, lyrical Ingrid Bergman wrings credit from the tortured script. Her portrayal of the unfortunate barmaid who charms Jekyll only to fall victim to Hyde's sadism is a refreshing element in a preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...