Word: wastrel
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...beauteous Maria Montez jouncing down a stairway or beauteous Yvonne de Carlo dancing. This time it is Miss de Carlo's turn. A refined girl, she nevertheless heads the floor show in a tidy sort of Moroccan dive in order to support her mother (Eve Arden), a lady wastrel. She is rescued from these questionable surroundings by a sailor named...
...those in the program notes which conclude, "Apparently there is no secluded corner of this troubled orb where the rotund Romeo does not have a counterpart; for, no matter what the customs or the climate, there are wives who are merry and husbands who are cuckolds." Albeit that wastrel Falstaff does get off a few juicy monologues on the vices of good and the virtues of evil, they are nothing one would want to add to his personal book of rules...
...thrifty characters of the first platoon who subscribed 100 per cent to War Bond allotments look down on their wastrel classmates...
...Hollywood producer's dream-a show that telescopes parts for nine stars and five dramatic episodes in one over-all picture. The only continuity is provided by a tail coat which appears in each episode in a hand-me-down career from the shoulders of a rich wastrel to a scarecrow...
Suspicion (based on Francis Iles's Before the Fact) opens with the authentic Hitchcock touch: a conversation in a railroad train speeding through a pitch-black tunnel. The picture tells the story of a charming, highborn, impoverished British wastrel (Mr. Grant) and his marriage (for love and money) to a sensitive, sensible daughter (Miss Fontaine) of a retired English general (Sir Cedric Hardwicke...