Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ethel Barrymore, in the part of the dying old aristocrat, there can be nothing but praise. The most striking "character" in the movie, her quick wit and quicker tongue provide some of the sharpest and best-aimed assaults the film can offer. Her advice to Pinky, "Be yourself," is the key to understanding the moral and psychological conflict which are presented...
Like a purple spotlight, the plot is trained remorselessly on the sins and sufferings of a beautiful Irish aristocrat (Miss Bergman). Besides being a great lady, she is also a fratricide, a moral coward and a tosspot. Ingrid is supposed to make this heroine seem an appealing damsel in distress. The appeal, despite beautiful efforts, remains largely potential. The distress comes through without relief, mostly in long, pale-lipped monologues and maudlin confessions...
...plot of a Faulkner novel, and though they are reported as unembellished fact, considerably less convincing. Scattered among accounts of excursions to local bars and bordellos, political picnics, Shriners conventions and early jazz sessions, are the tragedies of boardinghouse friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic spinsters, held under the water in bordello bathtubs, driven half-mad by ghostly apparitions, slashed from cheekbone to chin by jealous wives...
Charles IV sent José Jaudenes Nebot, a comisario de los ejércitos, or army quartermaster, to Washington on a diplomatic mission. There he met and married British Aristocrat Mathilde Stoughton Fletcher. They returned to Spain in 1812, and Jose died that year. Mathilde followed 24 years later. To their children they left an enormous U.S. estate. Remittances were sent from the States for 25 years, then stopped. Why, no one quite knew...
...turret windows, and signed "O.K.," found their way into museums all over Europe. He himself found his way into the homes of nobles and notables, doing portraits. Among his sitters: Thomas Masaryk, whom Kokoschka adored: "A dried, shriveled apple with a million wrinkles," he called him, "[but] a real aristocrat...