Word: inamorata
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents she met in the palace. She quarrels bitterly with her lover on a hotel terrace in the Dolomites, archly deserts him at a mountain railway station, wistfully marries him in a London registry office and, in a scene bristling with angry understanding, advises his brother's silly inamorata not to poach on her preserves. The water jump in this extraordinary chronicle is reached when her preoccupied husband pushes her off the stage on which he is rehearsing the ballet she has slaved to enable him to write, just after her baby by a former marriage has died...
...fiancee. They are too poor to get married, are too idealistic to do anything else. When his mother is killed in a traffic accident, Julian finds himself saddled with her fearful secret. He leaves the show, makes a success with his own music, tries to forget his inamorata in the crescendo of his new life. But the tempo rapidly gets too fast for him; the surrealist dream in which he finds himself becomes a nightmare. Too late he is taken to the refuge of an asylum. The attic has given up its secret...
Marie Manfred, famed pianist and even more famed inamorata, goes to Italy for a holiday, almost immediately becomes involved with pianos and men, both of which she has sworn not to touch for some time. She has a violent affair with a sombrely pompous Fascist, whose physical charm temporarily overcomes her common sense. When he refuses to marry her, on the ground that the scandal of being her husband would make him ridiculous, she finds herself able to laugh as his enemies force him to drink their health in castor oil. Relieved of her hero, she takes on an earlier...
...commits suicide when the radio denounces her as a social parvenu. The banker kills himself by accident while trying to poison the rest of the company. Curiosity and alarm set others to bickering and snarling. They drop off one by one, leaving only the journalist (Donald Cook) and his inamorata (Genevieve Tobin...
...affairs with women were invariably unhappy. For one thing, his appearance was against him. His first inamorata turned out to be otherwise engaged. The second could not stand the sight of him. Then he took up with a pregnant prostitute. But he learned to do without love; he had a presentiment that his time was short, and he had the long road of art to travel. He went to Paris, where he lived with Theo, painted furiously and tried to become like the Impressionists, whom he reverenced. But it was against his grain. Suddenly he left Paris, went...