Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again in New York, where he shows up by chance one night to take her 17-year-old daughter on a date. There is great fluttering and consternation that result in several dubious subplots involving a good-natured ex-husband (Gene Kelly), a kleptomaniac mother (Binnie Barnes) and a suitor from out West (Billy Green Bush), who is given to such admiring exclamations as "Wahoo! When you get yourself together you really get everything in the right place...
...indulgent love to them. And when they abandoned her, she resurfaced like an unsinkable Molly Brown. This life spent sipping champagne in Grand Hotels with vast baroque rooms and parlors caressed by generations of gamblers is like an advertisement for the jet set life -- with life itself the spirited suitor of romance. It was all style and peacockery, quick passion and gondolas...
...Romance. Sadly for lovers of fairy tales, it turns out that the two men were not really competing for the spirited princess's hand. London gossip has it that Meade was never a suitor but acted as a cover for Phillips. Anne, who inherits her father's fondness for playing games with the press, contributed to the confusion. As recently as March, Anne royally fibbed that there was no romance between her and the strapping soldier. In fact, they actually became engaged in mid-April; the official announcement was delayed until, according to protocol, Commonwealth leaders...
...past comes directly after Agnes's, and it prepares us emotionally for her death. After a doctor gives Agnes a routine examination, Maria tries to seduce him; she fails, and thinks back to the time she and the doctor were last together--the doctor had been a failed suitor of Maria's. When he met her then, he had come to the mansion to treat the sick child of the servant-woman. Maria was married and bored. She invited the doctor to stay for supper, and then for the night; the weather was dreadful, she said, and her husband...
...romantic subplot brings on the at tractive Carolyn Lagerfelt and her stal wart suitor (Philip Kerr). The sun may have set on the British Empire, but the Union Jack is waving brightly on Broadway...