Word: elvira
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...ectoplasmic ex-wife. Charles Condomine (Robert Bouffier) is a writer researching the occult for his next novel. Together with his second wife, Ruth (Sheila Ferrini), he summons the delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...
...Charles, Robert Bouffier achieves moments of comic mastery as he fumbles over how to deal with his two wives. His expressiveness appears most in his delicious handling of lascivious scenes with the ethereal Elvira, but his incompetent-and-clueless-husband act nonetheless gets old quickly...
BORN: Feb. 14, 1929, Walsenburg, Colo. EDUCATION: Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, 1959 FAMILY: Wife, Elvira Yorba; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Marines, 1947-50 OCCUPATION: Upholstery-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Monterey Park mayor, 1974-75; California Assembly, 1981-82; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 732, Alhambra...
...revitalized Latinas Unidas, a Latino women's group, is training its members to volunteer at a battered women's shelter in Boston. Study breaks and discussions are also on the agenda, said co-chair Elvira M. Villasuerte...
Nevertheless, Emma, a fiddler for a semi-hot Chicago band called The Drovers, can be quite interesting. With her long black hair crimped and an awful "alternative" wardrobe, she is at times strangely reminiscent of Elvira. Stowe enhances Emma's powerful presence with a guttural voice and gunshot laugh and does a creditable job of charting Emma's emotional development as she regains her sight. Previous to her surgery, Emma, having created an imaginary world in her head, is happy and trusting. Once she is able to see, however, the real world proves to be a letdown, and her humor...