Word: dud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elaine Dundy. A sequel in spirit to her bestselling novel, The Dud Avocado, this one is about the adventures of a gallant, galling young lady who tries, without manners or morals, to secure a place for herself in London's Mayfair society...
...Elaine Dundy. The author of The Dud Avocado turns out another funny novel on the very same theme: the trials of a pretty, eager American girl trying to get into the snobbish London social orbit...
Dundy's first American heroine, Sally Jay Gorce in The Dud Avocado, was a memorably silly goose engulfed by all manner of insidious plots. Her second, a neurotic coed loosed upon London society in search of loot, can best be described as a pit viper fallen among king cobras. Honey Flood, as she calls herself, tries to put the permanent bite on a fat-cat Englishman by killing him to get his money, but discovers much to her surprise that she would rather have her victim in bed than dead...
JENNIE is a grandiose musical dud, dropped on Laurette Taylor's early life and hard times. Amid the gloom, Mary Martin shines like the inextinguishable star that...
JENNIE is a grandiose musical dud, dropped on Laurette Taylor's early life and hard times. Amid the gloom, Mary Martin shines like the inextinguishable star that...