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...Olivia de Havilland got a sweater knitted for her by a draftee...
Gradually Rita was transformed from a Spanish heavy into a livelier, Americanized Hedy Lamarr. Despite her promise to do what she was told, she never wholeheartedly gave in to the painful process until she saw her great success in The Strawberry Blonde (with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland). By that time Columbia's style expert, Maggie Maskel, had taught her how to dress, made her shapely, impeccably clad figure a fashion-plate fixture of the women's style magazines. She had even brightened the earth-bound pages of the National Geographic...
...wrong side of the Mexican-California border, waiting for the papers which will enable him to cross the line. Discovering that marrying an American woman will speed up his visa, he sets out to make the necessary arrangements. The prey turns out to be an American school-marm. Olivia de Haviland, on a Mexican holiday. This marriage of convenience eventually results, as you might have guessed in the suave Boyer's falling for the theoretically naive charms of Miss brown of Azusa, California. Paulette Goddard, as the femme sinistre from Boyer's past, is present to add to the intrigue...
Emigré Boyer's victim is Schoolmarm Olivia de Havilland of Azusa* ("everything from A to Z in the U.S.A."). Against Boyer's liquid-eyed, strong-charm methods she never has a chance: they are married in a jiffy. Wised up by Dancer Goddard, Olivia holds her pretty head so high that her husband realizes he is in love with her. That's all the immigration authorities wanted to know. He gets...
...sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock courtship. As we suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into her lap. The plot thickens when a rival strumpet, played to perfection by Paulette Goddard, disillusions Olivia about Boyer's soiled past, but the Rumanian's heart of gold, generated in the nick of time by the Hollywood alchemists, wins...