Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasant whinsy, the picture displays Mr. Tone in a manner better than usual and the film is greatly enhanced by his presence. Miss Crawford is splendid in the first reel or so, after which her part becomes slightly tedious until the later episodes. Mr. Montgomery plays his ordinary rich-wise-guy-mugger role...
When a man, 73, marries a woman, 23, the press is interested. When, in 1914, the man happened to be scandalously rich old-time Tammany Boss Richard Wellstead Croker the press was convulsed with excitement. In 1901 Tammany had been soundly beaten by Fusion Candidate Seth Low. Boss Croker had gone back to his native Ireland to buy a huge estate in County Dublin with the proceeds of years of "honest Tammany graft." He then launched on a racing career, which reached its peak when bluff Edward VII refused to ask him to a Derby dinner when Croker...
...Grandfather Adolph Kramer (Jean Hersholt) because she was tired of looking after her. Grandpa Kramer, a recluse, had not spoken to anybody for years, but Heidi soon made a playmate of him. It was terrible when Aunt Dete stole her one day, took her to Frankfurt to live in rich Herr Sesemann's house. After the snow and goats it was dismal doing lessons with invalid Klara Sesemann. (Marcia Mae Jones). Klara's mean governess, pointing her starchy cap at Sesemann, wanted Klara to stay sick, but Heidi's Christmas present to Herr Sesemann was the sight...
...brothers, starting out as the proprietors of the Kiassy Kampus Kleaners of Lombardy College, leave this job when they make themselves the custodians of an oil-rich Rodskin's $10,000 a day estate. While the Indian democratically mingles with the boys on the grid as their star back, the quarterback, whose position he takes (only once seen without a large capital "L" on his chest) has his troubles with the coach's blonde daughter, Gloria Stuart...
...Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes for with his swordcane. But tourists are small fry. His real enemy is 83-year-old Colonel Anthony Steele, who 50 years ago squeezed Captain Trolley out of a rich mine and married his girl. When Trolley's beautiful, talented son killed a man for striking his horse, it was the Colonel's posse that lynched him. On that day Captain Trolley declared there was no God, only the Devil in the person of the Colonel...