Word: inescort
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...Martin (Peter Willes) is interrupted in planning to run away from home by an invitation to dinner from the girl next door (Anita Louise). Roger Hilton (Ian Hunter), a diligent and prosperous accountant, has had a first-rate chance for extramarital adventure with an actress. Dorothy, his wife (Frieda Inescort), has received an equally alarming proposal from her best friend's brother, Frank Haines (Roland Young...
Alan has not been killed at the front, only blinded. Believing that this will make his life a burden rather than a joy to Kitty, he does not return to her. Instead, under an assumed name, he takes to writing juveniles, attended only by a secretary (Frieda Inescort) and his friend Sir George Barton (John Halliday). On the eve of their marriage, Kitty and Gerald learn of his existence. Still hell-bent on self-sacrifice, Alan arranges the furniture in the living room, hides his Braille books, awaits their call. When they arrive, he greets them soberly, pours a drink...
...satisfactorily, but soon after the curtain rises begins to have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity. And as she also expected, flighty Sybil is sorely disappointed that her spiritual affinity...
...Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain to break the transatlantic record although they both know the vessel has dilapidated plates. This leads to an exciting last act in which the troubles of the Atlantia's passenger list are resolved by maritime disaster. Written...
John Golden has gathered an extremely capable cast for such a frothy vehicle. Frieda Inescort has a more serious part than in "Springtime for Henry." As Mary Howard, an author, she has the unpleasant task to ask her publisher's wife to surrender the husband because she is really in love with him, and he believes himself to be in the same condition. One feels it would be much easier to doff the chain of virtue which Miss Inescort wears so self-consciously and skip off with the publisher, instead of being so deadly moody and moral about...