Word: heiresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stowaway (Frances Farmer) who turns out to be his employer's niece. By the time this relationship has had its anticipated effect on their romance-amusement at his effrontery on the niece's part, outraged pride on Lara-bee's when he learns she is an heiress-the romance has served its anticipated function in excusing half a dozen songs tossed off in characteristic Crosby fashion...
...thoroughly modernized version of the Mary Pickford classic of 1916, The Poor Little Rich Girl depicts its peewee heiress-heroine wandering away from her father's mansion, following an organ grinder to his basement flat, making friends with the vaudeville actors who live upstairs, joining their act which turns out to be a smash hit on the radio hour of the crotchety soap manufacturer who is her father's business rival. Shirley is absent from the screen in only six sequences, foots neatly through three dance numbers, sings You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby...
...bulb-nosed star. As Professor Eustace McGargle, broken down carnival spieler accompanied by his docile & devoted ward (Rochelle Hudson), he wanders into a village tent show, bulldozes the proprietor into giving him a concession, teaches yokels the intricacies of the pea & shell game, palms off his ward as heiress to the town's biggest fortune. By the time it has been established that she really is an heiress, W. C. Fields has had time to execute several of his most celebrated routines. He gets tangled up with a croquet set, makes a fox-terrier talk, sells five bottles...
...capable pair of surgeon's hands and three years' interneship behind him. When he set up practice for himself, waited for patients to come, it seemed a long wait. The family in whose house he boarded and had his office were a no-account lot. Beverly, pretty heiress of the town's tycoon, brought Chris his first patient-her dog. She and Chris quarrelled and fell in love immediately. Chris was too proud and poor to do anything about it, but Beverly wangled him the job of city doctor. When he got an appointment as surgeon...
...such is the quest for new titles to old dishes. And the tripe served up this time needs a new name, indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby...