Word: trollopes
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...England, and became an immediate sensation. As a cigarette-smoking, short-skirted vamp, she was a hit in her first play. The part she played set the style for a series of underdressed, sexy roles, including a drunk flapper, a chorus girl, an artist's model, a trollop, and a few unfaithful wives. (She also found time to play Camille...
...movie manages to destroy the original play's tenderness and its moral ("facts are better than dreams"*). Dream Girl gets by, with little to spare, on the strength of some frantically energetic scenes showing Betty as a flaming señorita, as a South Seas trollop and as Madame Butterfly...
...lieutenant with a lodging for the night and a discarded ladylove. The lieutenant, however, mistakes the earl's fiancée (Anne Burr) for the fancy woman, and the two promptly fall in love. Almost as promptly the pair are involved with a farcical Free French officer, the trollop, and the fiancée's ducal deadbeat of a father (well played by Melville Cooper). Thereafter the confusion grows, the enjoyment dwindles...
...play. Thirty-two-year-old Actress Sullavan, back on Broadway after six years in Hollywood, plays with skill, spirit and amazing youthfulness. Actor Nugent-beside whose naturalness a man in shirt sleeves with his feet on the desk seems posed-does a perfect job. And Actress Christie, as the trollop who gives Bill the goby, gives the play just the right touch of tabasco...
...perjury and, finally, for second-degree murder. Next came eminent physicians, who examined bits of skin tissue under a microscope, cast doubt that violence alone had caused Melendes' death. The Civil Liberties Committee, taking up Brinkley's case, could now find no witnesses who remembered anything. (The trollop who had posed for the picture with Melendes could not even recall what...