Word: cohorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first class fun," he recalls. "All you had to do was roll, kick, and play, and throw in a few agonizing grimaces while your opponent, or cohort, as the case might be, pretended to twist your ankle." To demonstrate he rolled up into a ball and twisted his leg much like a baby trying to put his toes into his mouth...
Briefly the plot has to do with the machinations of the mistress (Dorothy Stickney) and her cohort (Lulla Gear) in trying to get the husband (Neil Hamilton) to divorce the wife (Jean Dixon). Since the management takes great pains to shroud the denouncement in secrecy, I would't give it away; suffice it to say that it is unrealistic and unsatisfying. The acting was on the whole good, particularly that of Miss Stickney and Mr. Hamilton, until the last act when no one quite seemed to know what the author had in mind. Donald Oenslager's one set was admirable...
Meeting a pretty girl (Leslie Caron) by accident, Cotten learns that she loves the millionaire's only living relative, who needs the inheritance for some revolutionary movement in France. While captivating Caron persuades the dying old man to write another will, her cohort Cotten deals with the evil contenders for the money--the housekeeper (Barbara Stanwyck), and a sinister side-whiskered butler. Between drinking quantities of liquor (fourteen glasses in all) and trying to break through Stanwyck's overbearing hostility, Cotten manages to appear a humanitarian martyr...