Word: tinhorn
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...admirer is Michael Harrison (John Boles), a millionaire who subsidizes her Greenwich Village cronies to prove to her that they are no-goods. True Merrill is grateful to Harrison but miserably disillusioned. Her only consolation is the fact that a publisher admires her first novel. A bombastic tirade against tinhorn esthetes, clumsily written and woodenly directed, I Believed in You is noteworthy solely because its 26-year-old leading lady, if she possesses the energy and ability shown by other members of her family, may get somewhere some day. Rosemary Ames's father was Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, famed...