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Among exiled Greek royalties those who dislike beauteous Marina, Duchess of Kent, insist that this onetime Princess of Greece is a clever, ambitious minx bent on jacking up her husband into something of more consequence than the youngest and willowiest son of Britain's George V. Marina knows that Greek Premier...
...Harrow (Henry Fonda), a big, quiet farm boy, signs on as a mule driver for the summer. In Hennessy's strictly moral canal hotel at Rome (immoral canal hotels could be identified by their white chimneys), Dan meets Molly Larkins (June Walker). She is a pretty minx born to the Erie water. The conflict between "notional" Molly and simple Dan is the traditional one between water folk and land folk...
Mary Mitchell's A WARNING TO WANTONS is the story of a demurely high-handed, modern minx who got what she deserved--and liked it. Rene de la Valliere began by toying decorously with her mother's lovers. Count Kardak was a wise and charming old sybarite who should have known better. In fact he did, but how could he resist the idea of inviting Renee to his remote little principality for the wedding of his earnest, dull and handsome heir, Max, to the buxom girl scout duchess of the neighboring principality? In the ensuing battle of wits with wits...
...painful," he wrote, "her mouth is bad and good, her Profile better than her full face . . . her hands bad-ish, her feet tolerable." He did not even love her for her guile: they had many a tiff over a ball-room brave, and he reproached her with being a minx, "calling people such names...
...Blondie of the Follies," has certain incontrovertible merits. Its plot is the outworn story of the successful showgirl, the like of which Miss, Davies has played at least twice, probably oftener, but the lively lines save it. When one sees the Maid Marion in her usual role of a minx, it is clear why her pictures appear so often on the pages of Hearst's Cosmopolitan and in the Boston American. Of course an unfeeling and unsympathetic director made Miss Davies show maternal instinct over a dog, a part difficult to reconcile with the fact that she is a Colonel...