Word: vampirish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play brings a successful young actress (Gloria Dickson) under the vampirish influence of a fading harridan of the theatre (Josephine Victor). How the aging harpy enslaves the girl, breaks up her engagement, holds her captive even after death, is the rest of the sad story. Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent...
...important speech, Chilcote calls on the. cousin, John Loder, persuades him to double for him. Loder turns out to be the man that Chilcote should have been. His speech arouses cheers. He falls in love with Chilcote's lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock (Halliwell Hobbes) is party to the deception, helps prolong it until Chilcote is dead and Loder has nothing but a War scar on his wrist to remind him that he has been a masquerader...
...attention to himself by prophesying, from a bit of the man's handwriting, who the thief would turn out to be. Though his clairvoyant accusation carries no legal weight, subsequent tests confirm his prophetic powers. He is taken up as a curiosity by Millionaire Bassan, falls in love with vampirish Fedora, prophesies her husband's death. Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time. Prophet Trux, for vanity's sake and feline Fedora, for caution's, hide the discrepancy. On the strength of their mutual deceit they become lovers...