Word: stepsons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Claudette Colbert is a dauntless, stylish, long-suffering widow who has turned her back on love (Walter Pidgeon) in order to raise two stepchildren and pay off her late husband's debts. The stepson (Robert Sterling), just home from the Navy, is a nice, levelheaded boy. But the stepdaughter (June Allyson) is something straight out of Freud. Since no one has ever told her that the adored father who died when she was five was a weakling, a dipsomaniac and a thief, June sits all day at the piano, strumming Debussy and mooning over daddy's memory. Meanwhile...
...most of this one propped up in bed. Alternately purring and bellowing in a voice not unlike Brother Lionel's, she is superbly effective as the ailing, aging mistress of a huge plush-and-black-walnut New England mansion. A gay-dog only son and a sobersided professor-stepson (George Brent) make their home with her. Residents and visitors in her house include such odd or frightened people as a cook (Elsa Lanchester), a trained nurse (Sara Allgood), and a strangely inhibited young woman (Dorothy McGuire), who has been unable to speak a word since childhood...
...aging queen promptly promoted Leicester's stepson, the Earl of Essex, to her old favorite's place. She also gleefully hounded the widowed "she-wolf" until she had got back every penny Leicester owed her. But she kept a soft spot in her heart for her old favorite. On the note that the dying man had sent her from the country, she wrote, "His last letter," and laid it away in a chest beside...
...cheered up when he was given a delousing bath, dusted himself happily with insecticide powder. He said that his name was Stanlius; that he was the stepson of a Russian fighting with the Germans; that he had never shot anybody; and that he was ten years...
Lieut. Richard ("Dick") Carver, General Bernard Montgomery's stepson, captured in Libya, had escaped from a German prison camp and held a new job as "Monty's" aide-de-camp...