Sentences with phrase «wealthy widow»

In 1991, Ivey returned to her Texas roots for NBC's Down Home, though she found more success playing wealthy widow B.J. Poteet on the final season of the long - running sitcom Designing Women (also NBC).

Fading Gigolo (R for profanity, sexuality and brief nudity) John Turturro wrote, directed and stars in the romantic comedy as a dashing Don Juan who woos wealthy widows in order to help out a cash - strapped pal (Woody Allen).

The Extra Man (R for sexuality) Unlikely - buddies comedy about a disgraced, cross-dressing, prep school teacher (Paul Dano) who moves from Princeton to NYC where he shares an apartment with a college professor (Kevin Kline) who spends his evenings as an escort for wealthy widows.

Together with a band of fraudsters he managed to empty the Nordea bank account of a very wealthy widow over the course of 13 days in the summer of 2010.

Along the way, he finds time to court wealthy widow Martha Custis while professing love for the unattainable wife of a friend.

Wealthy widows don't want to be saddled with a man in his 60s who all of a sudden wants her to become his sugar mama.

When it was announced that Jessica Chastain would be starring in A24's weighty biopic Woman Walks Ahead, which centers on wealthy widow and portrait painter Catherine Weldon who leaves New York City in the 1890s and becomes allies with the famous Sitting Bull and the fight for his Lakota people, many fans believed this could be the breakthrough role she needed to finally win an Academy Award after two nominations earlier this decade.

Turns out the dying man is a rich horse rancher and his wife, Charlotte Millwright (Annabeth Gish), is about to become a very wealthy widow.

Goepfert says he once heard of a wealthy widow who — hating her late husband's collection — let the ATF destroy it.

«Greenleaf» is the story of a wealthy widowed farm - woman.

The movie presents us with two of the most contemptible persons ever to appear on the screen: a wealthy widow named Merteuil and her former lover, Count Valmont.

The pet project of Sarah Winchester, the wealthy widow of a firearms magnate, construction on this labyrinthine mansion lasted over 30 years (legend has it that she just kept adding rooms to confuse the ghosts of those hurt by her husband's profession).

A playboy prince from a small country is forced to court a wealthy widow in order to ensure that her money stays in their homeland.

But in «Winchester,» Sarah's paranormal real - estate fetishism is more than a wealthy widow's eccentricity — it's a compassionate gesture offered to the victims of gun violence.

A small - time private eye (Cage, Snake Eyes) is hired by a wealthy widow (Carter, The Love Letter) to learn the secret to a short 8 mm film found in her deceased husband's safe.

Julie Harris plays a wealthy widow romanced by her «paranormal investigator,» played by Tom Adams (who's a delightful sleaze).

All That Heaven Allows — Douglas Sirk melodrama about a wealthy widow (Jane Wyman) who falls in love with the Thoreuvian tree farmer Rock Hudson, and has to choose between social pressure and the beatnik.

Helen Mirren appears as Sarah Winchester, the wealthy widow of gun manufacturer William Winchester.

It's a movie about a wealthy widow whose troubles aren't exactly life - threatening.

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

However, he is intrigued by the case of Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a likeable fellow who's accused of murdering a wealthy widow.

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Musical MPAA rating: PG Director: Leo McCarey Actors: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx Plot: Freedonia has borrowed a large sum of money from a wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale.

Their prior collaborations include «Mrs. Henderson Presents» (2005), in which Dench played a wealthy widow enjoying a thorny...

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening April 27, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS Bernie (PG - 13 for violent images and brief profanity) Jack Black plays the title character in this crime comedy about a small - town, Texas mortician who goes to great lengths to keep up the illusion that the wealthy widow (Shirley MacLaine) he's killed is still alive.

She is the author of four books: Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows; Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced into Prostitution in the Americas; Hitler's Silent Partners: Swiss Banks, Nazi Gold and the Pursuit of Justice; and See No Evil: The Strange Case of Christine Lamont and David Spencer.

In this darkly comic tragedy of manners, deWitt (The Sisters Brothers) follows a wealthy widow, her adult son and their aging cat as they flee New York for Paris to escape scandal and impending bankruptcy.

Leaving his studies, he takes on a variety of menial jobs while Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper.

«Queen of Suspense» Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke are back with their fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Under Suspicion series; Every Breath You Take follows television producer's Laurie Moran investigation of the unsolved Met Gala murder — in which a wealthy widow was pushed to her death from the famous museum's rooftop.

Legend has it that around 1372 a wealthy widow known as «grandmother» Penh discovered five Buddha statues in the hollow trunk of a tree washed up on the banks of the river.

Also at this time, Sayde Moss, a wealthy widow, became a silent partner and with her support the gallery moved across the street to 723 N. La Cienega Boulevard.

He married a wealthy widow and became famous for his «high - society» sculptures.

Your «ideal» client may be a wealthy widow who needs an estate plan, or it may be a veteran who just got into a car accident.