Word: cytherea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Constance Bennett, wide-eyed prom queen of the jazz age, gold-plated honey of the cinema since 1924's Cytherea, scored heavily in her role as a mother. Now 38, she won for her 14-year-old son, Peter Bennett Plant, a $150,000 cut of the estate left by the second of her four husbands. At present the wife of ex-Cinemactor Gilbert Roland, she first married a University of Virginia boy, had the marriage annulled; next married Manhattan playboy Philip Morgan Plant, got a divorce and a $1 million settlement; next married and divorced the high-styled...
...principals: James Nathaniel Wishart, a cautious redhead who has been married for 20 years without finding out he is ticklish; Emmy Cruger, a divorced, slim-waisted, no longer youthful college teacher whose knees are ordinary but whose discernment is not. Businessman Wishart wants a return ticket to Cytherea. Emmy offers him the ticket but refuses to guarantee more than a one-way trip. Her attitude: "We have only one life to live, if that." So Wishart takes no trip. Though he is the man she wants, Emmy yields instead to a man she does not: Jervis Huntley, a truck owner...