Word: widowered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his eye on the balance of De Laveaux's wealth, Mazurkiewicz began to woo his widow. Rebuffed at first, Mazurkiewicz persisted. At last he persuaded her to give him several thousand dollars for safekeeping by warning her that he had a tip that the secret police were about to raid her home. When she asked for the money's return, Mazurkiewicz shot her−and her sister for good measure−and buried them both beneath the concrete floor of his garage...
Helen is a beautiful, poised, glamorous costume designer, aged 35 (no change in 23 years). She is a widow, but not even her scriptwriters know who her husband was, or what ever became of him. Helen never tells. She is invincibly pure, relentlessly humorless (because her fans want heartthrobs, not laughs). Once, seven years ago, she walked uninvited into the stateroom of a man she had just met on shipboard. Faithful listeners were scandalized. Helen is now allowed to wear tight skirts and low-cut gowns, but she neither smokes nor drinks. Helen's enemy, Gossip Columnist Daisy Parker...
Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that. In 1841, when he was 14, the small fishing boat on which he worked was carried out to sea by a storm and drifted to an uncharted island...
This fourth version of the dependable plot has no surprises. Deborah Kerr, who gets some dubbed-in help on the vocals from Marni Nixon, is both starchy and strong-minded as the British widow brought to Bangkok in the 1860s to teach English and the scientific method to the king's innumerable children. Yul Brynner, in a bare skull and bare feet, plays the Oriental potentate with the same mannered ferocity that he displayed on Broadway during the 1,246 performances of the play's run. About all that Hollywood has added are the production values of CinemaScope...
...purpose. Her pet project: subsidizing 18 foreign students in their U.S. studies, footing all bills including those for tooth paste. Said Philanthropist Mesta: "That's why I have to work so hard, but why shouldn't I do it? Got no husband, got no family. Just a widow with a small income, eatin' money." Turning from stern fiscal realities to light philosophy, Perle reminisced about her old job as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg: "I learned to stop and listen. Told that to a reporter one day, and I got a letter from a woman who said...