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Divorced. Potter d'Orsay Palmer, playboy member of Chicago's rich hotel family; by his third wife, Pauline, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. heiress; in Sarasota, Fla. Grounds: habitual intemperance and cruelty. Palmer's first two wives supposedly received divorce settlements totalling about $5,000,000, but the third Mrs. Palmer received only $250 a month alimony and counsels' fees ($10,000). Few days after his divorce, Potter Palmer married Pluma Louise Lowery Abatiello, 23, roadhouse waitress...
Hard to Get (Warner Bros.), like The Cowboy and the Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges...
...tells to socialite Mrs. Colwell, Author McFee portrays the stanch stuff of the British aristocrat, one Captain Remson, who suffered many cruel misfortunes after his unjust dismissal as a young officer from a crack British steamship line. The worst of these was his marriage to a beautiful U. S. heiress, a friend of the woman to whom Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend...
...hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent. Their antics-when the millionaire turns his great Danes loose on the pressagent, when the pressagent retaliates by buttering the tracks of the toy railroad, when a sleepy justice of the peace (Hugh Herbert), confusing the identities of the two young couples at their joint wedding, finally...
...Franklyn Laws Mutton's "little girl," Barbara, Woolworth heiress...