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...took Héreil seven years to round up enough backing to finance his idea. At first, corporate executives guardedly asked who else was involved. That resistance ended only after an American expatriate millionairess named Isabelle Kemp chipped in the first $80,000. Finally, Héreil recruited a multinational team of educators...
Finally the limousine appears in Trieste at the beginning of World War II, bought by a cranky American millionairess (Ingrid Bergman) who heads for the Yugoslav border spouting kind words about Hitler, though she cannot abide Roosevelt or Reds. Thanks to the rebel partisan (Omar Sharif) stowed away in her trunk, Actress Bergman -radiantly unconvincing throughout-takes an abrupt Left turn, ends up ferrying guerrillas through the mountains and dropping 20 years from her characterization...
Ella is a hypo-millionairess now, can afford a Don Loper wardrobe, and endlessly redecorates her house in Beverly Hills. She is also kind, thoughtful, and painfully unsure of herself. She spends her free evenings sewing or watching television or writing new songs. She has just written one in homage to Ringo Starr, the Beatle...
...Skin a Rabbit. Almost alone among the chiefs of billion-dollar corporations, most of whom come from middle-class backgrounds, the man who has inherited this tradition was born to great wealth. Mother Copeland was a millionairess, father was a high officer of Du Pont for 40 years, and Lammot Copeland's playmates were mostly his moneyed cousins. From the start, he showed a flair for discovering short cuts. At ten, he entered a family contest in biology in which the little Du Ponts competed to be the first to find and assemble from the Delaware countryside the bones...
...film's choicest surprise occurs in the last reel or so, when Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...