Word: varden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among the victims: Hollywood's 55 -year-old girl-show producer, Earl Carroll (see MILESTONES); fortyish, brunette Beryl Wallace, star of many of his revues; onetime Follies Girl Venita Varden, divorced wife of Jack Oakie...
Bert Lytell gives a savory performance as the ham and Evelyn Varden is comic as the fat directrix of the players who rehearses to the refrain of "Nuts in May, nuts in May!" a dance intended to enliven one of the morbid dramas of Chekhov. But as a whole this supposedly sparkling little vehicle by the author of the 1934 comedy hit Personal Appearance gives off about as much electricity as a horse...