Word: manya
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...most interesting member of the Nowak family is young Manya (Anna Sten), who presently becomes not only the heroine of Tony Barrett's book but also its inspiration. By the time Dora Barrett comes back, Tony is ready to ask for a divorce but by this time Manya, convinced that her attachment for Tony has reached an impasse, has married the loutish young Pole (Ralph Bellamy) to whom her father has promised her. The situation explodes suddenly on their wedding night. Enraged when he finds Manya weeping and reluctant, her drunken bridegroom rushes out to kill...
...selling the glebe lands thereof to an enterprising Polish neighbor, Cooper is rather shocked to find that they are to form part of the dowry which will place Manya (Anna Sten) forever in the boorishly legitimate embraces of Patigorski, a young Pole of the vicinage. He allows his wife to return to the giddy whirl alone, and remains to watch Manya trip across the hill each morning with the milk. Winter comes...