Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room mansion near Charleston was destroyed by fire. Estimated damage: $400,000. She is the former Henrietta Hartford, A. & P. heiress. Shrewd, brilliantly blonde Cinemactress Constance Bennett declared that the boy she had legally adopted a decade ago was actually her own child by the late Millionaire Playboy Phil Plant. Four-times-married Miss Bennett (who got $1,000,000 and a divorce from Plant in 1930) let out the news in the course of a $550,000 court fight over the Plant estate...
Pinks feeds her on leftover champagne and caviar from the nightclub where he works. He plays butler for her, trundles her all the way from Manhattan to Miami in her wheel chair, plants her in the path of the playboy she is trailing. Risking a 20-year jail turn, Pinks blackmails the crook who slapped her (Barton MacLane) into a one-night loan of a nightclub (complete with Ozzie Nelson), stages a blowout to bolster Her Highness' fading delusions of grandeur. To cap the climax, Pinks appears in full dress, and Her Highness sees him for the first time...
Fernando Ortiz Rubio, playboy son of rich ex-President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was back in the clink again last week under the fanciest charge...
Their first officers were largely drawn from the ultra-swank Household Brigade, whose regiments set much store on birth and money. This circumstance made ordinary Britons grumble and suspect that the Commandos were officered by undemocratic pantywaists. The lists of Commando officers did indeed include many a prewar playboy, many an old, famous and sometimes weary name. Among them were Author Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies, Scoop, Put Out More Flags), who had transferred from the Royal Marines; Sir Roger's son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, who last year died leading a Commando raid on Rommel's headquarters...
Tripoli's story is the old one about the ex-Marine (Minor Watson) who dumps his playboy son (John Payne) on his old sergeant pal (Randolph Scott) to be made a man of. It ambles through a romance with an almost unbearably beautiful nurse (Maureen O'Hara), a fight, a near court-martial, a rescue at sea. They make a Marine out of the young scamp, all right, but it hardly seems worthwhile, cinematically...