Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chase. In Los Angeles, Rosemary McCarthy, 27, asking for police protection from her suitor, John L. Hall, complained: "He follows me to work . . . tries to take me home . . . chases me . . . whistles at me from behind trees and peers at me from behind pillars . .. leaps out at me on the street . . . scares me witless by jumping at me from doorways." Protested 74-year-old Hall to police: "This is proper conduct for a man wooing a woman...
...Catherine Sloper (strikingly played by Britain's Wendy Hiller), an awkward, passive, plain-looking girl with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic father (well played by Basil Rathbone), thoroughly aware of the suitor's motives and utterly unconcerned with his daughter's feelings, forbids the match on pain of disinheritance...
Hollywood was unkind to Hilda because she would not play in anti-Nazi films ("after all, my family was still there"). A rejected suitor denounced her to the FBI. Hilda went to Mexico, became a Mexican citizen...
...swan, she is, of course, downright sensational. The long, low whistles she inspires in all the male members of the cast are the most realistic part of the entire picture. Once her glasses are off, Maureen's only real problem is making up her mind which lovesick suitor she'll marry...
...doctor's shot in the arm and soft talk begin to take effect, Francesca begins to remember a happy childhood followed by years of frustration. Her schoolmistress beats her across the knuckles; her bad-tempered but handsome guardian (James Mason) loves music but hates women; her first suitor, an American saxophone player, proposes marriage but lets her get away; a pudgy, pompous portrait painter merely proposes that she run off with him to a tumbledown villa in Italy...