Word: shabbier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the day before, in an oldfashioned, gaudily wallpapered room in one of Madrid's shabbier neighborhoods, a soberly attentive Lepe had attended a reunion of 16 members of the Altoguirre and Jaudenes families (his real name is Alvarez Jaudenes). They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which...
...quickly made to feel the serfdom of its employees. Ordered by the big boss to recant, Soren is egged on by his best girl (Marsha Hunt) to rebel. About 15 minutes before the final curtain, he finds himself both jobless and blacklisted. But Hollywood itself could not find shabbier ways, in those 15 minutes, of arranging a happy ending...