Word: wife
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hatter's Castle (Paramount) is the beetle-browed mansion of a brutal hat-shop owner (Robert Newton) whose arrogant ambition to rise above his station kills his wife, drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary...
...died in 1925, was no more than a child when she and her elder sisters, Liza and Sonya, were caught in Tolstoy's love-web. Sister Liza fell madly in love with young Tolstoy-only to find that he was in love with sister Sonya, who became his wife. Tatyana herself got the next best break: her brother-in-law admired her so much that he made her the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostova, in War and Peace...
...riding the rails as a hobo for some months and a Petty girl strips and wiggles for him in a passing compartment -that he realizes he will have to do something (i.e., steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife whose hair curls to her shoulders, whose eyes are like something out of the sea, and who presents herself in Jack's guest room to show him her extensive...
...insists that he is merely a "landsman"-but his new book is all about a voyage he made in his 31-ton ketch Truant two years ago, from England to Greece, via the English Channel, the rivers and canals of France, and the Mediterranean Sea. His crew consisted of wife Isabel, whom Millar describes as if she were a delicate platinum watch to which salt water would be fatal, but who suggests, in action, the most efficient boatwoman since Grace Darling...
...putting blue flowers in their hats, or chewing at the stems of roses while the blooms hung below their chins ... A dozen of them were lying on the steps of the Quisisana [Hotel] and as we walked past they lifted heavy-lidded eyes to look appreciatively at my wife. Two of them, mounted on plump donkeys, followed us down the street, and we heard one say to his companion, who burdened the air with lusty sighs, 'You in love again...