Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan, thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
...youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character. --Lynn...
...Oscar and Lucinda Bold heiress, sensitive clergyman, sinful passion, a trek into the wilderness. Sounds like one of those "classic" novels you'll never get around to. Don't despair. Gillian Armstrong and her stars, Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett, find something feverishly unsettling under the black robes of Victorian propriety...
...megabuck marriage right up there with a corporate takeover. Perhaps the wayward groom decided that the cost of trading in his Porsche for a Ferrari was too high. Hardly anything to concern the masses. If the jilted wealthy bride really wants to get married, she can run an HEIRESS SEEKS HUSBAND ad, or tour Europe interviewing studs. When she finds the right man, she can mold him into her very own Prince Charming. KARL P. MUNZLINGER St. George's, Grenada...
...youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character...