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Late on a balmy summer night in 1974, the kitchen door of Allen and El-nita Carver's two-room house was suddenly thrown open. In stepped Coker, 24, a convicted rapist and murderer who had just escaped from a nearby prison. Brandishing a three-foot board, Coker forced Mrs. Carver, who was still recovering from the birth of a son three weeks earlier, to help tie up her husband in the bathroom. That done, he grabbed a steak knife and assaulted her. He then took her with him as he fled in the Carver car. Sheriffs deputies captured...
...into her again. Ashamed to admit that she lives in a depressed area (Washington Square, apparently), Sandra lets him escort her "home" to his flat, saying it's hers. The rest is a comedy of confusion involving His harried boss (Donald O'Connor), Her door-slamming roommate (Nita Talbot), some cozy dinners (duck a I'orange) and other misfortunes. Put them all together, they add up to Funny Feeling. Take a couple of aspirins first and it'll hardly be noticed...
...NITA B. ALLEN...
Thus everyone shares time's cruel burden, trapped by the memory of transient pleasures impossible to renew, tragic errors impossible to erase. Only the nubile "niece," played with a fine flair by Nita Klein, escapes untouched for now. "I've had enough of this dump with all its memories," she snaps, and takes herself right back to Paris...
...Died. Nita Naldi, 59, who as a girl named Donna Dooley in a New Jersey convent dreamed of becoming a new Theda Bara, was plucked from a Broadway chorus line by John Barrymore in 1919 and within five years was vamping Rudolph Valentino in such passionate pantomimes as Blood and Sand and Cobra; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Billed as a distant relative to Dante's Beatrice, she had an answer for women who asked the stock question: "How did it feel to be kissed by Valentino?" Said she: "He was a real heman, but the poor darling...