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Word: deadbeat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discarded ladylove. The lieutenant, however, mistakes the earl's fiancée (Anne Burr) for the fancy woman, and the two promptly fall in love. Almost as promptly the pair are involved with a farcical Free French officer, the trollop, and the fiancée's ducal deadbeat of a father (well played by Melville Cooper). Thereafter the confusion grows, the enjoyment dwindles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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