Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tullio Carminati is an Italian nobleman who meets Ida Lupino on top of the Eiffel Tower from which he is doing his best to jump because Miss Ellis, a cafe singer, has refused to marry him. James Blakeley, looking for Ida Lupino, his fiancee, enlists the help of Lynne Overman, magnificent as a member of the Sûreté. Things build to a spacious and impressively scored wedding night in a chateau with a large cast of serfs singing nuptial choruses regardless of the fact that neither woman is with the right man, and neither is married...
...younger ones, Catherine and Angele, each dreamed of the boy who was to marry her some day. At last he came, disguised as an old toymaker. Thereafter he appeared in various guises, but he finally turned out to be the long-lost but still young son of an impoverished nobleman. Though both girls were in love with him, it was Angele who married him. Catherine was terribly jealous of her sister's happiness, but when she came home from her strange school to find Angele deserted, her jealousy vanished, and she helped Angele keep up the hopeless pretense that...
Chronologically, the 86 pictures exhibited last week ranged from a portrait of a Russian nobleman by Borovikovsky (1757-1825) to Pinsk-born Nicolai Cikovsky's Landscape...
...fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard is equally superb...
Lick-lip melodrama from the word go. Paprika unrolls a rapid narrative of gypsy love, fistfights, Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept...