Word: cottoning
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There was only one reason a Dean should write to me. I out the envelope back, unopened. I could always pretend I never got it. Or I could fake amnesia, like Joseph Cotton in that movie. A convincing case of amnesia would wipe out all traces of Janet Pressell. Then, after some artistic plastic surgery and some intensive dieting, she could emerge as Victoria de la Mandolin, tall and willowy a femme fatale on twenty continents...
...born; after that she was boarded out with families in the South while her mother toured with acting companies. The acting did not bring in much money, however, and when she was 16, Lena became the wage earner, dancing and singing in the chorus of Harlem's famous Cotton Club. It was not a happy time. Working conditions backstage were terrible, pay was bad, and when Lena's white stepfather tried to get her a bigger role, the club's white owners beat him up and pushed his head into a toilet bowl. After joining another band...
...balanced budget. But they make no attempt to work out a unified position, and their organization is the loosest on Capitol Hill: the forum has no chairman, no staff, no offices, not even any set schedule for meeting. When a member wants a meeting, he notifies Charles Stenholm, a cotton farmer from Texas who has been designated "coordinator." At the meetings, members simply talk and break up without taking any nose counts...
...joint villain is the Hubbard clan, a trio of plunderers in magnolia land. The family trade is cotton; its god is greed. The younger brother, Oscar (Joe Ponazecki), is a man with a sycophantic spirit and an ugly habit of slapping his genteel, alcohol ic wife Birdie (Maureen Stapleton). The older brother, Ben (Anthony Zerbe), is a cigar-chomping Machiavelli. As their sister Regina, Taylor salivates in her lust for wealth, power and position...
...chance for the big bucks comes when a wily Chicago entrepreneur (Humbert Allen Astredo) offers the trio a deal to build a cotton mill if the Hubbards will share the costs. The hitch is that Regina's share lies in the bank vault of her husband Horace (Tom Aldredge), who is precariously ill in a Baltimore hospital. He loathes the Hubbards for their vulpine avarice and has long been estranged from Regina. She sends the daughter (Ann Talman), whom Horace loves, to haul him back, and proceeds to cajole and curse him, but Horace is adamant...