Word: trollop
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...Claire Ledoux, an international trollop who has exhausted the capitals of Europe, Miss Dietrich sets up in business in 1840 New Orleans as a visiting countess. With a strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...
...between, Director Garnett fashioned the second episode in Universal's resuscitation of drowsy Marlene Dietrich. Traipsing through the islands of the East Indies with a trollop's parasol and two larcenous bodyguards (Broderick Crawford and Mischa Auer), she encounters a well-groomed wing of the U. S. Navy, casts languorous glances at a promising lieutenant, sings a dolorous chant beginning: "See those shoulders broad and glorious? See that smile? That smile's notorious. You can bet your life the man's in the Navy,"* at a cafe conducted by wheezing Billy Gilbert...
...STATION WAGON MURDER-Milton Propper- Harper ($2). Extortion is loose among Philadelphia's summering socialites and the body of Mrs. Eleanor Munson is found stabbed, in a station wagon. Trollop or no, Mrs. M. had a history that took Detective Tommy Rankin hotfoot to the scene of an adulterous Maryland tryst...
...goes royal, wrinkling his sub-Bourbon nose and speaking French as though afraid it might bounce back and hit him. As for Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her, in fact, the most likable royal trollop that ever pranced behind footlights. More of an 18th-Century tomboy than a glamor girl, Merman booms and torches away in her train-announcer's contralto, jouncing her personality all over the stage, giving the King the oo-la-lahr, then (in a glorious whirlwind finish) snapping back to Broadway...
...scantily-clad Mayfair trollop, "The Black Butterfly," was found stabbed to death. Police investigated whether she had been done in for blabbing I. R. A. secrets...