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...story is as breathlessly helter-skelter as most Chandler yarns. Unlike most, it strews only a modest number of red herrings and thus makes reasonable sense at the fadeout. Detective Montgomery is hired by a glamorous crime-fiction editor (Audrey Totter) to track down the missing wife of her publisher-boss (Leon Ames). The lady of the title never appears in the film because she is dead at the bottom of a lake. Before Montgomery finally catches up with the killer-and with love-he has bulled his way through brass knuckles, a moldy jail, various sinister strangers, venal policemen...
...Garden opera house, reopened last year, has been doing a big business with the famed Sadler's Wells ballet. The Garden managers, counting their profits, decided to take a flyer on a permanent opera company. To play it as safe as they could, they imported promising young Sopranos Audrey Bowman and Virginia MacWatters from the U.S. and hired as director an Austrian refugee named Karl Rankl, who had conducted opera in Vienna, Berlin and Prague...
Chairmen of the Graduate School Drives are: Richard B. Angell, Arts and Sciences; Alfred Nordstrom, Business; Royal McClure, Design; Forest K. Davis, Divinity; William A. Penrose, Education; John G. Wilson, Engineering; John F. Martin, Law; Bradley Bigelow, Medical; H. Ralph Taylor, Public Administration; and Audrey Bill, Public Health...
...picture going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
Some of the laymen were no less anxious than the professionals: Riveter Audrey Korhel, who had come all the way from Seattle to see the sight; Minneapolis Amateur Astronomer W. D. Morgan, who had waited all his life to see a full eclipse; Washington Schoolteacher Wallace Goodlow, who had been making plans for the trip for 13 years...