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...harebrained friend (Spring Byington) disloyally practices first aid under the auspices of a detested New Deal publisher's wife (Isobel Elsom...
...dining-room table and make them jump into the marmalade pot. Emily (Elsa Lanchester) collects dead birds and tidies up the river banks. Ellen (Ida Lupino) manages to keep her sanity, except for one regrettable lapse in which she garrotes her employer: pretty, bewigged, aging Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom), a onetime actress whose onetime suitors have pensioned...
What Retirement does best is five attractive characterizations by its principals, with an assist from housemaid Evelyn Keyes. A holdover from the Broadway cast, elegant Isobel Elsom is a handsome ornament to the grisly drama. The others are less handsome, but just as effective-especially taut, slight, eruptive Ida Lupino, who deftly manipulates her neurotic nuances as if her nephew (Mr. Hay ward) were not her real-life husband...
...distinguished Virginia lady, Isobel Lamont Stewart, Bryan married another: Anne Eliza Tennant, daughter of a rich tobacco merchant. John Stewart Bryan Jr. is head of the Bryan real-estate company. Son David Tennant Bryan, now general manager of the News Leader, is his father's probable successor...
...time is 1885, the scene a farmhouse in the English marshes where aging, rouged Miss Fiske (Isobel Elsom) is enjoying the fruits of hard work in the world's two oldest professions. Her dark, bonneted housekeeper (admirably played by Flora Robson) is saddled with two potty sisters, and tries to billet them on Miss Fiske. When the loonies strew her parlor with seaweed and dead birds, Miss Fiske bids them be off; but being penniless as well as potty, they have nowhere to be off to. In order to give the girls a home, the desperate housekeeper does...