Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more item to Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt's list of keep-busy projects. After trying her touch at painting, fabric design and collages in recent years, Gloria, 51, now hopes to market some of her artistic know-how in a new magazine. The quarterly, which is modestly called Gloria Vanderbilt Designs for Your Home, promises to supply how-to tips in painting, crochet, needlepoint, embroidery, quilting, knitting, rug making, sewing and other skills for ambitious homemakers. All of which may help even Creative Director Vanderbilt to pick up a new stitch or two. "I haven't a clue...
...film is a bewilderingly thrown-together comedy about two indigent idiots who try to swindle a young heiress out of her money. Nicky (Beatty), the tall poker-faced one, has seduced and eloped with the heiress while waiting for his divorce to come through. His pal Oscar (Nicholson), the short goofy one, marries her instead to make the theft legal, and they smuggle her off to California to wait for her 21st birthday. While they are busy making inept plans, the audience has time to notice what a fortune Nichols has already stolen: characterization from Laurel and Hardy, a plot...
...wealth is temporarily resolved. Kind Hearts and Coronets, the famous British film comedy on the same theme, is in fact so moralistic that in the end nobody wins out, everyone having been clearly shown the error of his greedy ways. Nichols tampers fatally with the format by making the heiress the one who wants to give it all away, and the two men selfish dopes who don't deserve the money but apparently get it anyway. The moral simplicity of the tale is so distorted, and its punch so diluted, that we end up disgusted with the heroes and indifferent...
Fatal Accident. The adolescent here is a runaway heiress (Melanie Griffith, daughter of Actress Tippi Hedren) whose obviously devious mother hires the shamus to find her. The search introduces him to plenty of colorful company, notably a movie stunt man, before he finds the girl holed up with a shabby stepfather and his mistress (Jennifer Warren) on the Florida Keys, where they manage a dubious-looking sea and air charter service. A traumatizing accident-or is it murder?-shocks the girl into docility and a return home where, doing extra work in a movie, she herself suffers a fatal accident...
...patrons impinge upon each other's lives, become entangled, but never really make connection. "They are very nice, but I can't go on all my life trying to love people at the table d'hôte," complains Mrs. Trollope, a still beautiful Eurasian heiress who dreams of living a settled, grandmotherly life in London. But her movements-like those of all the guests-are charted on another course, often determined by the rates of exchange. Obsessed with money, these inveterate wayfarers remain paying guests not only in the hotel but in one another...