Word: heiresses
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What story Ring boasts concerns a cold-blooded young man-about-town who hires a pretty young nobody (Stella Andrew) to come to the ball in the hope that she can bewitch his sensitive twin brother out of the clutches of a selfish heiress. What with being so ignominiously employed and with falling in love with her callous employer, the girl has a miserable evening. But if she is wretched from being poor and in love and not in society, so are most of those who are rich and in society and not really in love, who go yawning through...
...Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when divorce ended the union a year and a half later, he had accumulated such a handsome wardrobe that Producer Cecil B. DeMille personally gave him a job -at $30 a week...
...composer to win a commission (for his Music for the Theater) from the newly formed League of Composers, the first to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He has also collected a Pulitzer Prize, in 1945, for Appalachian Spring, and a Hollywood "Oscar" this year, for his score for The Heiress...
...fault decidedly does not lie in the acting. Denholm Elliott plays two parts well--twins of opposite temperament, living in Auvergne, France, in 1912. Frederic, who has all the humanity that his brother Hugo lacks, is in love with a beautiful young heiress, but the heiress loves Hugo. Hugo brings a poor young ballerina to a ball to distract his twin from the heiress, and her presence there gives the plot much of the flavor of Shaw's "Pygmalion." Neva Patterson is not only gorgeous as the heiress, but she plays the part with splendid clairty and effectiveness. Stella Andrews...
...Spring Cleaning and The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Lonsdale still favors the drawing room, in this case a ducal one. But in this case the Duke of Bristol and all his clan are stony broke, and-except for industrious Gerard-indolent, incompetent and alcoholic. A young American heiress to $10 million (Beatrice Pearson) wanders in off the road with pneumonia, falls madly in love with Gerard (Ralph Michael), and he with her. But Gerard won't marry money and Mary can't live without it. There must be many a confab, many a set-to, many a farewell...