Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot these two must work with is at best ordinary. It concerns a brother and sister team which goes to London for a show amidst the excitement of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. While there, Miss Powell inexplicably falls in love with Peter Lawford who plays a British nobleman. Lawford only proves anew that he just cannot act, even in his native surroundings. Meanwhile, the other half of the team, Fred Astaire, interrupts his dancing long enough to go romantic with Sarah Churchill, who is making her much-heralded debut in American movies. Keenan 'Wynn in the double role...
Virginia, who is now 34 and married to a Sun Valley ski instructor, admitted knowing just about every nobleman in Big Crime's hierarchy-Joe Adonis, Costello, Meyer Lansky, Charles Fischetti. But she didn't admit much more. Lolling negligently at the witness table, Virginia explained her unlimited income in short bursts of Alabama drawl: "I went with fellows. Like a lot of girls they got, giving me things and bought me everything I want . . . Whatever I ever had, outside of betting the horses, was given...
...young man who felt the lure was Fernão Mendes Pinto, son of a down-at-heel nobleman. He resolved to join the army and, once in the East, switch to trading. In 1537, at the age of 28, he sailed for Goa, Portugal's main outpost in India. Before he saw Portugal again, he was to visit all the lands of Asia, to be a merchant, a pirate, a slave, an ambassador and a Jesuit novice...
...filled with cream-and-honey nudes, and Biblical illustrations done on an equally grand and almost equally sensuous scale. But he could also put his passion for people into a small portrait, as his head of curly-maned Francesco Gonzaga, who later became Duke of Mantua, proves. The young nobleman's good-natured mouth looks about to speak, and his eyes are bright with thought, as though Gonzaga were in the midst of a conversation that both he and the artist enjoyed...
...native village of Beiré, Spain, when he bought his first work of art-a terra cotta angel's head that cost less than a dime. Within a few hours, his rambunctious kid brother had smashed the piece for a joke. Jose, the son of a broke nobleman, found money hard to come by, but when he got his hands on cash he spent it on art. Through the years he became a professional art dealer and a multimillionaire, filled a palatial, 34-room house in Madrid with treasures. Last week the house was opened to the public...