Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved herself more & more qualified to occupy it. As a rather fat little girl, as an earnest and leggy Girl Guide, as a shy, devoted daughter whose only rebellion took the form of insisting on doing war work like other girls, as a princess in love, as a radiant bride and young mother, Elizabeth grew up before a public which closely watched and freely commented on her progress. There had been a few lifted eyebrows, penciled higher by London's Sunday tabloids-as on the occasion, a year ago, when Elizabeth left her children in London for three months...
What, or who, killed Cousin Ambrose at that sinister villa in Florence? Was it a "hereditary" brain tumor? Or was it Rachel, his half-Italian, half-English bride? Ambrose, a confirmed bachelor and English country gentleman, had gone to Florence for his health, wound up as a bubbling, then a fearful, husband. To Philip, his heir in Cornwall, it all seemed plain as day: Rachel and her sinister adviser Rainaldi had murdered Cousin Ambrose. Then Rachel came to Cornwall on a visit and, in no time, her cute tricks had Philip dancing attendance like a puppet. But when Philip began...
Japanese War Bride (Joseph Bernhard; 20th Century-Fox) is a skin-deep drama about the difficulties of a Tokyo nurse (Japan's Shirley Yamaguchi) who goes to live among California lettuce growers as the wife of an unbelievably naive Korean War veteran (Don Taylor). To Taylor's surprise, the folks at home do not warm up readily to his bride. She is patronized, insulted, finally slandered by a jealous in-law (Marie Windsor) in a poison-pen letter accusing her of an affair with a local Nisei farmer...
Actress Yamaguchi is pretty in a surprisingly conventional Hollywood way, and so, despite its theme of racial tension, is Japanese War Bride. The movie proves notable in only one respect: in the past, the screen's racially mixed love stories have led at least one of the partners to no good end. In Producer Joseph Bernhard's switch on Madame Butterfly, the lovers manage to live happily ever after...
Homework. In Los Angeles, Boxer Alfonso ("Apples") Arenas' bride of five months sued him for divorce, tearfully explained to the court that she could no longer take being used as his sparring partner...