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This is a comedy about a widower who wants his three daughters to be married.
New York artist Joan Crawford, living in a rather elaborate 'hovel', marries ex-soldier and widower Henry Fonda as a response to lover Dana Andrews constantly putting his wife, children, and business before her.
The story line of this movie is clear, a widower with two children who is tired of his work as a "jingles" writer.
There are five central characters: two brothers of very different temperament, their new girlfriends and an elderly black widower, all quite lovable.
Why it wasn't released for home video....Its a beautiful story of a widower (Holden) and his son who feel they need a woman around the house.
A British widower living in India with his daughter invests 100,000 pounds in a diamond mine with an old friend.
A recent widower of 16 months, Tom is struggling to get back to his work as a children's fantasy writer.
The usual plot: small town, widower, son trying to set up his dad with warm-hearted prostitute, bad guys.... happy end!!! Apart from that, there's no plot, no depth, no fun, no characters, no no no... Watching it, simply created me a feeling to smash the TV.
Brad Johnson is the widower who is described as sweet and gentle, yet we can see from the get-go that he's overly-intense and a little dangerous.
Three sisters decide to get some temporary boyfriends when they think they have discovered their widower dad has terminal cancer with only a month to live.
He's a widower and his wife was killed by an Asian gang.
In time of colonization of America, the widower David Harvey (William Holden) lives in an isolated farm in the woods with his son Davey (Gary Grey).
A Frenchman and his wife come to Old West America circa 1870 in search of new lives for themselves, but he is soon killed and she becomes acquainted with a shy, gentle American widower.
Shirley Maclaine can see that this is a thin idea and really works the slow-burn heart of the film only softening her stubborn, lonely widower by increments.
With wonderful performances from Bill owen as the scruffy, gambleing, Nora Loving, loveable Compo and Peter Sallis as Clegg a widower who is terrified of anything female, but is more immature than your average child at Christmas.
As for the story the the widower who owns a restaurant finds a prefect girl for his Canadian born son but ends up getting attracted to her.
You Can't Cheat An Honest Man finds widower W.C. Fields running a second rate circus and trying to stay one step ahead of the law as he's creditors just about every place he goes.
A young teenage student, Gorgeous, rebels against her widower father after he informs her of his future plans to wed a new love in his life.
Dull, predictable lifeless story about a widower who gets a second chance at love with an old college flame after a chance meeting.
In Running Wild we see Gregory Harrison as Matt Robinson, a retired major and widower trying to bond with his kids so he thinks it would be nice to take them to Africa where poachers are killing elephants.
US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson, for example, has held a joint meeting with senior Musharraf advisor Tariq Aziz and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto’s widower.
Feuding between the Pakistan People’s Party, led by Benazir’s widower, Asif Ali Zardari, and the Pakistan Muslim League (N), led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, had given Musharraf a chance to regain some standing after his allies were defeated in the February elections.
In 2008, Musharraf resigned under popular pressure, and a new election brought Asif Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, who had been assassinated the previous December, to the presidency.
The 2008 election was won by the PPP under the co-leadership of Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was killed in December 2007 while addressing an election rally.
'One ought not to wear a chignon,' replied the Maid of Honour, who had long ago made up her mind that if the old widower for whom she was angling ever married her, their wedding should be of the simplest.
Her mother, Brulé, the widow of a pikeman who died in the mine, after having sent her daughter to work in a factory, swearing that she should never marry a collier, had never ceased to be angry since she had married, somewhat late, Pierron, a widower with a girl of eight.
Why am I not a widower!
He told them, moreover, how his lord, if he brought him a favourable answer from the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, was to put himself in the way of endeavouring to become an emperor, or at least a monarch; for it had been so settled between them, and with his personal worth and the might of his arm it was an easy matter to come to be one: and how on becoming one his lord was to make a marriage for him (for he would be a widower by that time, as a matter of course) and was to give him as a wife one of the damsels of the empress, the heiress of some rich and grand state on the mainland, having nothing to do with islands of any sort, for he did not care for them now.
"The case is this, senor," continued the farmer, "that by God's mercy I am married with the leave and licence of the holy Roman Catholic Church; I have two sons, students, and the younger is studying to become bachelor, and the elder to be licentiate; I am a widower, for my wife died, or more properly speaking, a bad doctor killed her on my hands, giving her a purge when she was with child; and if it had pleased God that the child had been born, and was a boy, I would have put him to study for doctor, that he might not envy his brothers the bachelor and the licentiate."
"So that if your wife had not died, or had not been killed, you would not now be a widower," said Sancho.
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