Word: heiress
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...Hell Cat (Columbia), remotely derived from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, concerns a spitfire heiress (Ann Sothern) and a hardboiled newshawk (Robert Armstrong). When the reporter slaps her face, she disguises herself by dyeing her hair, takes a job on his newspaper, maneuvers him out on her father's yacht so she can ridicule him to her friends. Suddenly she decides she loves him. Designed for second grade theatres and double feature programs, The Hell Cat is better entertainment than most Hollywood trivia of its class...
...physical coward. Pepe, the eldest, became a matador, but he lacked his father's touch. Pepe liked the life, however, learned all the dissolute extracurricular tricks. When his father arranged a marriage between him and Pilár, known to be a beauty, thought to be an heiress, Pepe quickly found she was too saintly for his taste. Left a penniless orphan by the death of her scheming grandmother, Pilár was jilted by Pepe. Don Jose took her into his household where both he and Juan fell in love with her. But Pilar's saintliness...
...kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble to put a trained bear, a tame crooner, Burns & Allen and two mercenary Georgian princelings into his play...
...week there was hardly a ripple when another great fisticuffer actually did go into the shipbuilding business. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney was a shipping clerk and went to War with the Marines while Jack Dempsey was posing as a riveter. Five years ago Tunney married Polly Lauder, Carnegie Steel heiress. Last week he was elected a director of New York Shipbuilding Corp., controlled by Motorman Errett Lobban Cord. Presumably he will represent the Lauder interests...
...displays a combination of charming romanticism and business acumen common to the movies but strangely rare in real life. But do these virtues win her a place in the heart of Will Connelly's mother? They do not. The mother would rather see Will married off to an heiress. Nevertheless, the match is accomplished and Janet and Will add to their romantic success a financial coup d'etat in the tobacco business...