Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweetheart...
...Minerva; Superfilm) is an Italian-made movie which juxtaposes the tyrannies and passions of Puccini's opera, La Tosca, and those of the Nazi domination of Rome. The story: a famous tenor hides a Polish Jew and a wounded British agent from the SS. His sweetheart [Anna Magnani], a famous soprano, misunderstanding his secretiveness, inadvertently betrays him through her jealousy. While the SS closes in, the Italian lovers sonorously sweat out La Tosca's similar story on the stage of Rome's Royal Opera House...
...glamour, and unparalleled grace of the as yet unseen princess. Finally, when the entire company was worked into a supreme ectasy of adulation, out waltzed the star, singing gaily and enticingly flitting among her admirers, while the audience gratefully cheered, thankful for a glimpse, at last, of America's sweetheart. Producers found they could make money following the formula, which included pretty girls, costumes, music, and sets, a comedian, and a tenor, and they saw no need to try anything different...
...Sweetheart had broken down the day before and the Chicoys had given up their beds to the passengers overnight. Most important and most irritated passengers were Mr. Pritchard, a corporation executive from Chicago; his wife; and their daughter, Mildred. Mr. Pritchard was neat, pompous and timid; Mrs. Pritchard sweet, sexless and tyrannical; Mildred hated them both...
...time with what he called "pigs," but though he got this girl into the seat behind him he didn't make much time with her before she got off at Rebel Corners. By that time the first downpour had drenched the valley, the river was rising dangerously, and Sweetheart was ready to start...