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...angry husband bangs his way in upon Prince Alfred's philanderings. When the singer escapes, the Prince decides to retreat temporarily to his villa in Monte Carlo. He sends Josef ahead with his crested luggage. On the train Josef meets a lady's maid named Marie (Elissa Landi) who is also traveling with crested luggage. Each mistakes the other's social position. In Monte Carlo Josef yearns for Marie, invites her over when his employer is out. In she flounces in her mistress's gown, squeals "Whatever mahst you think ahv me!," shows little...
...Masquerader," University--A pleasant romance starring Ronald Colman and Elissa Landi. The other feature, "The Narrow Corner," contains an excellent bit of character portray al by Dudley Digges. Last...
...next day. too jagged to make an important speech, Chilcote calls on the. cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock (Halliwell Hobbes) is party to the deception, helps prolong it until Chilcote is dead and Loder has nothing but a War scar on his wrist to remind him that he has been...
...most obvious Amazon, except for Amelia Earhart, in the public eye, and in her Hollywood ventures she has been cast as a ratchet-voiced tomboy whenever possible. It is an extreme disappointment then not to find her in this picture, but it is the more a misfortune to find Elissa Landi in the Hepburn role of Antiope, dashing young warrior and gallant lover. This reviewer last saw the lovely patrician Miss Landi as a major Saint in Cecil DeMille's evangelistic triumph, "The Sign of the Cross". At that time he decided that Miss Landi had few equals for quiet...
...doings demonstrate, they would be far happier about their ledgers. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. gives an intelligent performance and manages to make his fisticuffs seem lively. I Loved You Wednesday (Fox) is the account of one exciting evening in the career of an indecisive danseuse named Vicki Meredith (Elissa Landi). At the beginning of the evening she is planning to elope with a dynamic but gentle civil engineer (Warner Baxter). Before they have time to arrange the details, she has a caller, Randall Williams (Victor Jory) who hopes that Vicki still remembers their romance which ended years before when he told...