Word: gigolos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures are dissimilar. Constance, far from being the finalist in a beauty contest, is a girl of high degree who has found that the men she admires are unsusceptible to her charms. To make herself more desirable, she sets out to acquire a past, aided by a flip gigolo (Ben Lyon) and an elderly fortune hunter (Albert Conti), who commits suicide when she declines his offer of marriage. Returned to the U. S., she finds that her subterfuges, though a shade more extreme than she had intended them to be, have answered their purpose. A bleak young man of fashion...
...been observed loitering hopefully near her front door. She visits him at his apartment and succeeds in her frank efforts to have an affair with him. The comedy in this part of the action resides largely in the fact that the opera singer thinks the young man is a gigolo while the audience is sure that he is not. In what corresponds to the last act of the play-when the opera singer has given an inspired rendition of Tosca, dismissed a boring fiance-she discovers that her gigolo is an American impresario, traveling incognito with his good-humored aunt...
...horrid circumstances which may mar the financial success of a 5? & 10? store tycoon. Happy in Kansas City the tycoon and his dependents fall on miserable days when they move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo. The son of the family becomes a whiskey-sot. The daughter, painfully snubbed by socialites, falls in love with one who does not snub her (Leslie Howard). A denouement of sorts arrives when the son, overcome by alcoholic despair, commits suicide in an airplane. The tycoon then begins to look...
Ladies' Man (Paramount). Rupert Hughes got a fancy price for screen rights to his novel, serialized in Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan, but this little story might just as easily have been adapted from the drooling lyric of the current foxtrot, "Just a Gigolo." A few weeks' experience as a bond salesman was what made William Powell turn gig, and he did well for a while on the money received from pawning jewelry given him by admirers. He vacillated agreeably between Kay Francis, Olive Tell and Carole Lombard ; he had even fallen in love with Miss Francis...
...Just a Gigolo and Yours Is My Heart...