Word: orita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Junior Chamber of Commerce. All in all, the movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop and as Madame Butterfly...
...House of Mist and Señorita Bombal have a common background in the lake region of southern Chile, where it rains so hard (104 inches a year) that mist is almost a sign of fine weather. There María-Luísa's heroine, Helga, a love child, falls in love with Daniel, the boy next door. But Daniel marries Helga's cousin Teresa, who commits suicide. Helga becomes his second wife. Because she knows that Daniel still loves Teresa, she spends a night with a handsome interloper. Later, Daniel falls in love with Helga...
Such goings-on are no rarity in Chile, insists Señorita Bombal, where "everyone has a great drama in his life. Chileans are always committing suicide-men for lack of money, women for want of love. In fact, suicide is not considered a very tragic death. It is much worse to be killed in an automobile accident. Suicide is like dying of appendicitis...
...orita Bombal herself once contemplated suicide. That was in Santiago in 1941. Instead, she ran into an old fiancé, impulsively drew from her handbag a Mauser pistol, fired four shots into him. He recovered, forgave, filed no charges...
...such theatrics are now only for Señorita Bombal's bag of situations, to be woven into her quaint, syrupy prose. For three years she has been married to distinguished, white-haired French Broker Fal de Saint Phalle. With daughter Brigette, 2, they live happily in Manhattan...