Word: princess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naughty Marietta (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Victor Herbert's 25-year-old operetta, revived as the vehicle for the first important cinema performance of Baritone Nelson Eddy. It concerns a French Princess who, to avoid a manage de convenance to a Spanish grandee, disguises herself as a peasant girl and joins a boatload of female emigrants whom the King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying...
Engaged. The Infante Juan, 21, youngest living son of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain, midshipman in the British Navy; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon, 24, daughter of Prince Charles of Bourbon. Because his two older brothers, the ex-Prince of Asturias and the Infante Jaime, renounced their rights and married commoners, the Infante Juan is heir presumptive to the Spanish throne...
Seeking Divorce. "Princess" Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, granddaughter and heiress ($20,000,000) of the late F. W. Woolworth; from "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31, divorced husband of Louise Astor Van Alen. Married in 1933, they were often separated, often reported about to divorce. In London last week, whence she was about to sail for the U. S. to file suit in Reno, "Princess" Mdivani said: "We agreed to part only legally. . . . Alec to me is one of the finest men I have ever known. . . . No man could be nobler...
...Princess O'Hara (Universal). When Old Man O'Hara, driver of a horse hack, is accidentally killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem...
...Dean Smith will go the King Albert Memorial Medal designed by dark, handsome "Princess" Roussadara Mdivani, wife of Painter José Maria Sert...