Word: heiress
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Scared Stiff (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a shrill blend of spooks and slapstick set on a mysterious tropical island. While trying to help Heiress Lizabeth Scott take possession of the island, Cabaret Performers Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis get tangled up with treasure-hunting mobsters and perambulating zombies. When he is not being locked in a trunk or imprisoned in a haunted castle's torture chamber, Jerry also imitates Carmen Miranda, and Dean sings (I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine, San Domingo). Interesting bit players: Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. For Comedian Hope...
...celebrate Gnmdlovsdag, Danes held a public holiday, and amnestied 25 criminals. As a bonus, Heiress Apparent Margrethe got a day off from high school...
...right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept the decision as gracefully as possible." Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton and German Tennis Ace Baron Gottfried von Cramm, her "dearest friend for years" (notably since her 1951 divorce from her fourth husband, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy), were together again on the Riviera, giving weight to stories that their oft-rumored marriage was finally about to come off. Von Cramm...
Much of the fine support is almost superfluous, however. For as the heiress, Mathilda Hills is superb. She does everything right, with her sweet, shy smile that can instantly freeze to a frightened, embarrassed grimace. This is one instance in which it is the real praise to say that the actress is halting and awkward, for with her clumsy goodness Miss Hills creates a memorable character...
...over furnished Victorian parlor, adds to the realism, but as I've said, much of this support is unnecessary. The Heiress depends upon good acting, and Miss Hills and most of the cast supply it in abundance...