Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Jean Wingfield, daughter of Nevada's famed George Wingfield, onetime cowboy, gambler, speculator, mine owner, banker (whose twelve Nevada banks are closed); and Chauncey McKeever, Oxford graduate, Chicago broker; in Manhattan...
Gambling Lady (Warner). The heroine of this picture is a talented professional gambler named Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck). She plays cards honestly but she always wins. Her social life is even more improbable. When her father dies she refuses, though penniless, to marry a jolly but unscrupulous bookmaker (Pat O'Brien). When she meets a callow socialite named Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), she falls in love with him immediately and marries him soon afterward...
...going to lose out. Before the story has proceeded very far it becomes apparent that the souls of the doctor and of the dance hall hostess are not stained irrevocably, since they have both been wronged. It is a question of time before the slick and ally gambler. Ricardo Coriez, fades from the scene. Thus he is the cause of a pleasant surprise when he faces his end with a great deal of tact...
...rain. It was the first state to declare a moratorium during the Depression-Nov. 1, 1932, day after it celebrated the 68th anniversary of its admission to the Union. No banks have failed since but a tottering chain of twelve institutions, owned by George Wingfield, oldtime gambler and mining speculator, never reopened. Transamerica's eastward move brought promise of a desert blooming of new banks. Reno's First National has long been hand-in-glove with Amadeo Peter Giannini and Nevadans welcomed the deal, hoping that under his control the $7,500,000 bank would soon begin...
Genevieve Tobin is Robinson's leading lady, playing the part of a disillusioned gambler's wife. Glenda Farrell is the other woman in a triangular love affair while others in the cast include Robert Barrat. Hobart Cavanaugh and Gordon Westcott...