Word: gigolos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thereupon a proscenium mike, representing the voice of the theater, agrees, after a bit of bickering, to follow through. The hero becomes the $25-a-week slave of a pulp publisher, has his pay cut to $21 when the publisher's wife decides to support a Middle-European gigolo, is jailed for exposing his publisher's past. But, as it must to all musicomedies, a happy ending comes to this...
...case of balding, banjo-eyed Charles Boyer, the answer is love. Love laughs at locked frontiers, drops M. Boyer, 42, into the U.S. melting pot. As Georges Iscovescu, renowned European gigolo and dancer, he is one of a hotelful of émigrés impatiently waiting to cross into the U.S. from a little Mexican border town. Impatient at the slow arrival of his quota number, he takes a tip from a former dancing partner (Paulette Goddard) who has married her way across the U.S.-Mexican border...
...bakery. But little else in her life is quite as easy as pie. The first of her lovers, her husband's ex-partner, is only too ready to betray her when it means money to him. Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with her daughter Veda as a working woman, a moneygrubber, a "varlet...
When Hollywood mixes sweet and inexperienced Olivia deHavilland with Charles Boyer, as a cynical Rumanian gigolo whose past is as dark as his Latin complexion, a strange alchemy results which, with Mexican clime thrown in as catalyst, generates plenty of heat during most of the show, but often just fizzles...