Word: wislack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story : the impoverished and wolfish Duke of Bristol (Clive Brook), his impoverished and meek friend Richard (Ro land Culver), a statuesque American pickle heiress (Googie Withers) enamored of the Duke, and a heartless, sporty widow named Mrs. Wislack (Beatrice Lillie) abandon London's high life for the widow's island shooting lodge in Scotland. Mrs. Wislack's shocking intention is to take cringing Richard for a month "on approval" before she decides whether to make an honest and rich...
...Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink with his former butler, or ribs "daring" pictures in a male bathtub scene which is the nakedest thing outside a travelogue in years. It is the tone in which Roland Culver murmurs "Many congratulations" after Mrs. Wislack's announcement that her income is ?25,000 a year. It is in Miss Withers' rejection of the Duke-the prettiest, quietest kidding of British drawing-room drama on record. There has probably never been a richer, funnier anthology of late-Victorian mannerisms...
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