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Later the two Beans get jobs in a Paris dressmaking establishment. In no time at all Tilli is a famed dress designer, the toast of Paris and her boss's fiancée. But his rather arm's-length love-making is explained when he tells Tilli that he is incurably impotent. On the eve of their wedding he kills himself...
...Bean-Rechettis is Tilli's next love, a U.S. singer who brags that he is virginal. Once that disorder is cleared up, Tilli marries him. She soon leaves him for dressmaking with Mother in Manhattan. Tilli (now divorced) is about to marry a dull but rich fiancé when the dipso-and-nymphomaniac wife of the artist whom Tilli really loves dies in the nick of time. So she marries the artist...
...Actor Nick Romney finds faith by repulsing Melita's fleshly charms and acting his clergyman's role to perfection. Laura is saved when Henry is struck down by a terrible sickness. Gladys learns the meaning of religion when she goes to Christmas service and "sees" her dead fiancé there, in battle dress...
...enlisted in 1939, was soon after reported missing, and later declared legally dead. Now in 1944 Sophie is about to marry her leading man (Donald Cook) when a queer phone call announces that her husband is on his way to her house. Before he arrives, Sophie's fiancé, then her father, then her little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather than sentiment, for showing how precocious children and posturing stagefolk dramatize situations...
...Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...