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...Darryl Zanuck dishes out several times each year. Like all the others, The Dolly Sisters, which launches George Jessel as a Hollywood producer, has a plot concocted of time-tested staples: the kindly, absent-minded accent (S. K. Sakall); the handsome, threadbare song-plugger (John Payne); the rich, respectable fop (Reginald Gardiner); the old-time hit tune (I'm Always Chasing Rainbows); the lavish dance sequence (performed in blackface on a 75-foot banjo to the tune of Darktown Strutters' Ball). The only really fresh face belongs to Frank Latimore, who plays Chicago department-store tycoon Irving Netcher...
...Marx would have grumbled in his beard at the sight; but Engels, a bit of a fop himself, would have loved it.) Churchill, who had seen and envied Stalin's fawn outfit at Yalta, remembered that as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports he also was entitled to wear a fawn-colored uniform...
...flimsy story, based on "Mayering," depicts a pompous fop of a Crown Prince (played by Stockwell) who wins the love of Marinka, a Viennese debutante (played by Miss Roberts). Whenever the feminine half of the combination appears on stage, the show becomes agreeable and the singing light and pleasant. Without Miss Roberts, "Marinka" would not have dared open...
Five years of exile were all that Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm could stand. After that, he scraped along with the German estates which the Weimar Republic considerately left to him. Berliners got to know him as a fop who drove a racy red roadster to the capital's better hot spots and was unpleasantly wolfish at his own parties. His four sons went various ways : Louis Ferdinand worked for a while in Henry Ford's plant in Detroit, then married a Russian refugee Romanov princess, ended up as a prisoner of the Allies. The eldest son, Wilhelm, lost...
Many Britons remembered John Amery as a precocious, contrary fop who had once been a Communist fellow traveler. He had tried film producing and gone bankrupt for more than $20,000. He had got 70 traffic convictions and been disqualified from driving for five years. He had been prevented from marrying an actress, Una Wing, in Chelsea, Paris, Russia, Bulgaria and Latvia. Then he had married her in Greece. He had been arrested in Paris on an extradition order by Greek police for passing phony checks...