Heiress Lucy Percy’s family fends off a fortune-hunter, and Lucy decides to rusticate. She and her aunt rent a cottage, but change their identities in order to avoid further problems. The Earl of Avedon’s ramshackle nephew owns their cottage and exhibits every sign of falling for Lucy’s charms. But Avedon suspects Lucy is out to capture his nephew and does everything in his power to prevent that! Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest
All the world flocks to lively Brussels, and so does Lady Mary Spence with her daughter.
London 1838.
The " Merry Widow Waltz " is repeated four times in the film and becomes the site of the struggle over ownership and interpretation , like the ring that is exchanged between Uncle Charles and Young Charlie in the film .
A wallflower's time to shine… The Earl of Shalford needs to marry into money to save his estate.
man, and the daughter and widow stood to split approximately ten million dollars. The widow was the second Mrs. Culpepper. ... Tuesday morning, Nakayla and I drove to meet the waltzing widow, Alexia Culpepper.
When Jocelyn Tremayne saved her husband's reputation, she lost everything—including her faith in God.
Why, I've idolized her since I was a girl, ever since she solved the Mystery of the Waltzing Widow, and she's coming here! I'm so excited. Today I couldn't sleep if I tried.” “Well, she's only a person, Elizabeth, like any of the rest ...
And at this point the image of the couples dancing to the Merry Widow waltz, unseen since the credits, dissolves onto the screen over the subdued, somber Uncle Charlie, which intimates that this may be an image, and a sound, ...
Music functions narratively, by any intuitive assessment, in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, particularly at junctures when a scrap of Lehar's “Merry Widow” waltz intrudes itself, suggesting the “Merry Widow Murders” that are central to ...
THE BIG BROADCAST OF 1938 Music : Ralph Rainger Lyrics : Leo Robin Screenplay : Walter DeLeon , Francis Martin ... Bob Hope , Dorothy Lamour , Shirley Ross , Martha Raye , Lynne Overman , Leif Erickson , Ben Blue , Grace Bradley ...