Word: penniless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wants to go to Paris to get it out. But his father (Leo G. Carroll), a rock-bound Maine sea captain, sends him to sea instead. When his father orders a second voyage, Chris does not tell the old man to go keelhaul himself, and then leave home, penniless, to write music. He just lolls around sniveling until his domineering sister (Ella Raines) and his adoring sweetheart (Phyllis Calvert) finagle money enough to send him to Paris. Later on, Chris shows his contempt for the financial side of his art; at a public concert which his socialite wife has promoted...
Like Giotto, Italy's first great painter, Městrović spent his boyhood as a penniless shepherd, grew up to be a religious mystic. But unlike Giotto, Městrović is no innovator. In manner as well as in spirit, he is traditional. But U.S. citizens who know him best for the mounted Indians on Chicago's Congress Street Plaza will find his Metropolitan sculptures quite different. Among them: a 5½-ton Pietà, a contorted and agonized Job, a doubled-up heaven-staring figure of Despair. There is also a series of scriptural stories...
...caption warns the audience, straight off: "This is the story of a scoundrel"-i.e., he is not to be mistaken for a human being. Georges Duroy (George Sanders)-Bel Ami to his lady friends-is a scoundrel, at the very least. Starting all but penniless, he climbs aboard Journalist John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan...
...some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns...
Antioquenos are colonizing Colombia's cities as well as its mountainsides. Penniless paisas (Antioqueno peasants) arrive in Barranquilla or Bogota, marry a rich man's daughter (if possible), set up as peddlers or petty merchants in any case. In one generation, by shrewd trading, they end up as merchant princes or industrialists. A sizable part of Bogota's industries and banks are controlled by Medellinenses...