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...discovered the theft just before going out to a dinner in honor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which is playing at this year's Saratoga Performing Arts Center, one of Sonny's pet projects. She went to get her jewel box, stashed away between blankets in the linen closet ("one of my four secret places," she says), and discovered the jewels were missing. "I had to go through the whole party without anybody knowing," she recalls. "I drank lots of champagne and tried to look happy. But I felt miserable...
Eventually, however, fortune does come her way. Her son, a petty criminal whose visits are years apart, makes a call and secretes a wrapped bundle in a closet. Then he flees, into the arms of the bobbies, and the package lies mouldering in a closet until the old lady comes upon it and rips it open. The sight of the stolen loot drives her nearly mad with joy; in her mind it becomes the nonexistent legacy, testimony to her tale of vanished elegance...
...husband had just come home from the seas. He looked in the closet. "What are those military uniforms doing there?" he asked. "They're mine," said Manuela Sáenz de Thorne. "I'm a colonel in the Liberation Army...
...present, Millie offers a classic lesson in box-office brilliance. No sex (Julie Andrews changes clothes in a closet while the camera lounges around outside), no philosophy, no violence, only a homespun little message for homespun little girls: follow the dictates of your heart rather than your pocketbook, and your man will turn out to be a millionaire...
...Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, a film version of the Arthur Kopit play produced off Broadway in 1962, is supposed to be a comedy about momogamy in American life. The heroine, an overdecorated middle-aged man-eater (Rosalind Russell), arrives at a Caribbean resort with her nixed of kin: a husband (Jonathan Winters), dead for a decade, who hangs taxidermically immortalized on a coat hook in her clothes closet, and a son (Robert Morse), arguably alive, who at 25 still sucks his thumb and sleeps...