Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg in the winter, Igor loved to prowl among the operatic scores of his father, Feodor, a famed basso who was Chaliapin's predecessor at the Imperial Opera. Young Igor was given a "piano mistress" at nine, quickly learned to read music-and improvise. His parents did not want him to be a musician. They packed him off to the University of St. Petersburg to study law-but only after Igor got their permission to study harmony on the side. At the university, Igor made friends with Vladimir Rimsky-Korsakov, and showed his compositions to Vladimir's famous...
Jean Arthur, a visiting Congresswoman is flabbergasted to find John Lund, an American captain, fraternizing with Marlene Dietrich, the ex-mistress of a fugitive top Nazi. As bad or worse, Miss Dietrich is going around scot free; she is even singing in a nightclub. Millard Mitchell, a levelheaded, wisecracking colonel, does his best to calm Miss Arthur down; but since she is falling for Captain Lund, she doesn't calm easily. At long last she comes to realize that the Army always has its reasons: Miss Dietrich is being used to smoke her jealous Nazi lover out of hiding...
Miss Dietrich, at her best, is a past mistress of sardonic comedy and of low-life glamor, and if this picture really handled what it pretends to, she could probably have done herself proud; instead, she is required to sing such pseudo-bitter cabaret ersatz as Black Market. Miss Arthur used to have a nice knack for comedy; now & then it still clicks, but she leans more & more lazily on her famous woolly drawl and is forced, in this picture, into an embarrassing passage of whimsy involving a flustered retreat (from amorous John Lund) among filing cabinets, and a panicky...
...comes Ross Dennehay, a deserter from the U.S. Army in England. An amoral boor whose only aim is to get back to the U.S. and some easy wartime money, he has already killed two people in making his getaway. Edwina hides him for ten days, nurses him, becomes his mistress. She stands in horror of his past, suffers from his coarseness, even realizes that Dennehay wouldn't hesitate to kill her at the first suspicious move. But greater than her revulsion and fear is the larger fear of the lonesomeness that awaits her when he leaves. For even this...
...meals. When he walked the streets, moneylenders, tailors and haberdashers swarmed around him dunning him for their pay. After he lost his fortune he set himself up as a gambler in his own right, became wealthy, bought race horses and got a new mistress. The Prince of Wales campaigned for his re-election to Parliament, and traded mistresses with...