Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lush young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...
...fairy queen, will for a while make you wonder about him. And Hollywoodisms creep in: the background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes: someone scored a dialectical coup in presenting a smirking, opulent nobleman who rewards the hero, who has won for him a 500 thousand ruble bet, by giving him a ruble...
...years since she left home in Mt. Carmel, Pa. at 17, to study singing in Italy. In Milan she sneaked into a friend's audition by Toscanini, got a job in La Scala for herself. She sang all over Europe, capably but not gloriously, and married an Italian nobleman. Her husband died just before the war, and she returned to the U.S. with 28? in her purse. She was singing road-company opera in Seattle when a friend of Menotti's heard her, sent her to the composer. Said Menotti: "As soon as Marie began to sing...
Written by Jacques Deval, "Tovaritch" tells the story of a Russian nobleman and his wife who are compelled to flee their country when the Communist revolution was successful...
Monsieur Beaucoire (Paramount), the late Booth Tarkington's graceful romance about a Louis XV nobleman who disguised himself as a barber, was once (1924) a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino. Times (not to mention plots) change: today it is a scooter for Bob Hope. Mr. Hope, fortunately, plays the masquerading role...