Word: dee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clair's stable of actors, designers and technical men, Annabella is the only rebel. On the lot she refuses to work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract...
...knows who will get the contract for Cuba's rum but nearly every distributor has flirted ardently with the heirs of Founder Facundo Bacardi. At least seven bidders at one time or another have sworn that the agency was theirs. But Facundo Bacardi (pronounced "back-ar-dee'') had 22 grandchildren and most of the 16 living and their various in-laws like to have a hand in running the huge Santiago distillery. As soon as a distributor was certain he had landed the agency, he would discover that another Bacardi was dickering with another distributor. Canada...
...banker and industrialist, is one of North Carolina's richest citizens. He is also a State Senator. One day last fortnight grey-haired John Sprunt Hill rose from his desk in the Senate chamber at Raleigh, hunched his venerable shoulders and sang out loud & clear: "Chickadee, chickadee, chickadee-dee-dee...
...searching and bitter character study of a woman whose exaggerated affection for her children has made weaklings of them and a monster of herself. Mrs. Phelps (Laura Hope Crews) badgers one of her sons (Eric Linden) into breaking his engagement on the ground that his fianceé (Frances Dee) does not love him enough. The girl tries to commit suicide by jumping into a lake and it strikes Mrs. Phelps as deplorable that her sons do not put on overcoats before going to pull her out. Then she does her best to spoil the marriage of her older son (Joel...
...jealous of her husband (Clive Brook); the Strawn household where middleaged. Kewpie-doll Mazie (Mary Boland) badgers her husband (Charles Ruggles) and her bibulous father-in-law (Charley Grapewin ); the Morrow household where a shrew runs the Temperance Union and cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution...