Word: cheveley
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...story: Mrs. Cheveley (Paulette Goddard), a high-flying blackmailer, puts the bite on the most model husband and statesman in turn-of-the-century England. Unless he publicly endorses a flagrant speculation fraud, she will expose the one piece of youthful crookedness upon which his fortune and his career are founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring...
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