There is a whole rhetoric of this, a parallel language of efficiency and enlightened self-interest that bedazzles and blasts coats of easy virtue onto some old and unvirtuous things, like Damien Hirst plastering a skull with diamonds.
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"This order seems to be innocent of the legal definition of consent and of the judgements of the Supreme Court that are quite clear that even a woman of 'easy virtue' may well withhold consent," Supreme Court lawyer Karuna Nundy told BBC.
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"The Playhouses", The Illustrated London News, 19 June 1926, p. 1112 Reviewing the 1988 revival, Michael Coveney called the play "a fascinating blend of the country house ill-manners of [Hay Fever] and the late Victorian problem drama".Coveney, Michael. "Arts: Review of Easy Virtue at the Kings Head", The Financial Times, 14 January 1988, p.
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Many actresses died young or ended up living in poverty, or in worst cases would become prostitutes. These men and women were criticized for the qualities that made them successful. Theatre was a form of self-promoting and was seen as very flamboyant which was why those involved in theatre were considered morally suspect by many. Actresses were at best depicted as ladies of easy virtue, at worst as whores.
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A restoration of Easy Virtue was completed in 2012 as part of the BFI's £2 million "Save the Hitchcock 9" project to restore all of the director's surviving silent films. Like Hitchcock's other British films, all of which are copyrighted worldwide, Easy Virtue has been heavily bootlegged on home video. As of October 2018, the restored version only has appeared on DVD and Blu-ray from Elephant Films in France.
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Lena Horne agreed with this assessment and refused to star in the show saying she had no intention of portraying "a flashy lady of easy virtue". When the show eventually opened there were several protests by African Americans outside the theatre, which negatively affected sales. Finally, the show suffered several staffing problems. The choreographer was replaced midway through production and the show's leading lady, Ruby Hill, was replaced after its pre-Broadway tryout in Boston.
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John's sister shows her mother. Mrs. Whittaker confronts Larita in front of the family, stating, "In our world, we do not understand this code of easy virtue", as she thrusts the magazine under Larita's nose. Larita responds that indeed they do not understand much of anything. Mrs. Whittaker, fearing scandal and gossip about her family, tries to intimidate Larita into staying in her room during the party the family is hosting that same evening.
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Ellen Creed, a proud spinster fallen on hard times, has been housekeeper/companion to her old friend Miss Leonora Fiske, a wealthy retiree who in her youth had been a chorus girl "of easy virtue", for about two years. Lucy is a maid who has also been there for some time. Ellen gets a letter one day about her two sisters, both of whom are a bit peculiar. The letter says that unless she can get them under control, the police will be called and they will be evicted from their flat for outlandish behavior.
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However, she adopted the name as a tribute to the actress Michèle Morgan. After some romantic comedies and a small role in François Truffaut's Tirez sur le pianiste ("Shoot The Pianist", 1960), she worked in England and made some films in Italy, mainly with a small budget and usually playing women of easy virtue. Mercier needed a role which could make her a star. In 1963, when it was decided to make a movie of the sensational novel Angélique, the Marquise of the Angels, she got her chance.
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"Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was first introduced in 1946 in the musical St. Louis Woman. In the musical the song was sung by a female character of easy virtue, played by Ruby Hill, and the lyrics start out, "Free and easy". The score by Arlen provides a languid accompaniment, not dissimilar to that of "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)", also by Arlen and Mercer.
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The notices for the original production were generally polite but unenthusiastic. George Jean Nathan thought it old- fashioned, in the Pinero manner, and called it an "ancient whangdoodle".Quoted in Coveney, Michael. "Arts: Review of Easy Virtue at the Kings Head", The Financial Times, 14 January 1988, p. 21 James Agate wrote, "Mr Noel Coward gets younger with every play", adding that the playwright took an over- romanticised schoolboyish view of his heroine who is, in Agate's view, "a bore to herself and a nuisance to everyone else".
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Instantly recognisable from her voice, which became a trademark of her performances, she followed many of her theatre contemporaries into film acting, generally playing supporting roles. She often played women of easy virtue—for example in The Fallen Idol (1948), one of her earliest films, and Ealing's The Blue Lamp (1950). She appeared in similarly stereotypical female roles in other films, for example Gift Horse (1952), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), The Green Man (1956) and Carry On Sergeant (1958). She appeared in a cameo role on the BBC radio series Hancock's Half Hour, in an episode commonly known as "Cinderella Hancock" (1955).
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In 1992, the former columnist Jani Allan sued Channel 4, the British broadcaster, for libel,Channel 4 sued The Independent. 21 July 1992 claiming that in the documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife she was presented as a "woman of easy virtue". Amidst a montage of photographs from Allan's earlier days as a photographic model and quotes from her articles in the South African Sunday Times, Broomfield claimed that Jani Allan had had an affair with Terre'Blanche. The significance of the case led to its inclusion in the 1992 annual edition of Whitaker's Almanack.
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A team of steel erectors has been redeployed to a steel mill construction site in a small town. The head of the squad, Nikolay Pasechnik, is a shockworker of Socialist Labour and reputed to be a darling of the women and a quick wit. Welder Katerina Petrashen', working on the construction site as well, is to be considered a pretty girl of easy virtue: she smokes (considered as an immoral act), is not a member of the Komsomol, likes party-coloured dresses and behaves provocatively. After Nikolay and Katerina got to know each other, they develop a mutual interest.
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The song was added into the show by the producers before the show opened on Broadway, once they realized her talent. A New York Times Critic said of her, "Luba Lisa, as Addie, the girl of easy virtue, gets to demonstrate her talents as a seductive babe and a lively dancer in a number called 'Addie's at It Again' and in another with a group of lifeguards called 'Boys, Boys, Boys'". For her role as Addie she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and received a Theatre World Award. Luba danced with Maurice Chevalier in the film Pepe.
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From the Los Angeles Times, March 20, 1887: > George P. McLain owns a house on Requena Street,Requeña Street lay north of > First Street, just where the Los Angeles City Hall is today. which is > rented to Rose King, a lady of easy virtue. As the rent has not been paid > for some time, George has become a little anxious, and yesterday sued out a > writ of attachment for $180, rent due from October 5, 1886. Constable Smith > went down to enforce the law, and though he met with protestations and tears > on the part of defendant, he inexorably did his duty by levying on an Arion > piano.
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Critics generally praised the acting and direction but decried the plot and script, characterizing it as a "seamy-side melodrama" and "a run-of-the-mill problem melodrama". The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Jimmy Dunn does as well as anyone could, considering the plot and the script, and Mona Freeman is appealing, but the whole business is leaden and definitely second class fare". The St. Louis Globe Democrat found it difficult to make sense of the story and its message. Ziggy starts out earning audience sympathy for her difficult upbringing, but loses it by accepting her mother's advice that "the path of easy virtue is the easy way".
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The play is a comical farce enlivened by its witty dialogue and its humorous characters, and perhaps more successful in its day than The Way of the World, now considered Congreve's best. The main character is Valentine, then Jeremy, Valentine's resourceful servant; Sir Sampson, with his 'blunt vivacity'; Ben, the rough young sea-dog, who intends to marry whom he chooses; Miss Prue, only too ready to learn the lessons in love given her by Tattle, the vain, half-witted beau, who finds himself married to Mrs. Frail, the lady of easy virtue, when he thinks he has captured Angelica; and Foresight, the gullible old astrologer.A. G. Henderson, The Comedies of William Congreve, Cambridge University Press (1982).
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A victim blaming mentality existed among the occupiers, who thought of Haitian women as being "of easy virtue"—a mentality which served to justify and even deny the existence of sexual violence. Resentment grew on the part of Haitians and led to conflict with the occupiers. African-Americans also raised outcry about the marines' sexual violence; one reverend said, "in one night alone in … Port-au-Prince nine little girls from 8 to 12 years old died from the raping of American soldiers." In his 1920 campaign for presidency, Warren G. Harding criticized incumbent Woodrow Wilson, referring to the occupation as the "Rape of Haiti"; however after he won the election he continued the occupation in his own presidency.
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With Carrie out of the way for some time – in the end it turns out to be three weeks – Helen, who has recently let herself be seduced by Messenger, spends the most beautiful and romantic – or rather lustful – three weeks since her husband's death. In the language of the kind of novels she loves reading, she describes herself as having become "a woman of pleasure, a scarlet woman, a woman of easy virtue". She and Messenger have sex practically every day, and at all kinds of places. Helen, who prefers a bedroom with the curtains drawn, is amazed at, and eventually fascinated by, Messenger's lust and ingenuity when it comes to selecting odd spots for making love, for instance a prehistoric burial mound on top of a hill, with some hikers approaching.
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Young, pp. 28–29 In advance of the House of Commons debate on Profumo's resignation, due 17 June, David Watt in The Spectator defined Macmillan's position as "an intolerable dilemma from which he can only escape by being proved either ludicrously naïve or incompetent or deceitful—or all three". Meanwhile, the press speculated about possible Cabinet resignations, and several ministers felt it necessary to demonstrate their loyalty to the prime minister.Young, pp. 32–33 In a BBC interview on 13 June Lord Hailsham, holder of several ministerial offices, denounced Profumo in a manner which, according to The Observer, "had to be seen to be believed". Hailsham insisted that "a great party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar".Young, p.
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They were given a dowry financed by the King. This practice built upon the 17th-century precedent when Louis XIV paid for transport and dowries for about 800 filles du roi (King's Daughters) to emigrate to New France to encourage marriage and formation of families in the colony. By contrast, comfort women were described as those women "of easy virtue", vagrants or outlaws, and those without family, who arrived in Louisiana with a lettre de cachet; they were sent by force to the colony, especially during the Régence period early in the reign of Louis XV. Their stories inspired the novel Story of the Knight of Grieux and Manon Lescaut, written by Abbé Prévost in 1731. In 1721, the ship La Baleine carried nearly 90 women of childbearing age to Louisiana; they were recruited from the Paris prison of La Salpetrière.
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Wealthy art connoisseur Dwight Stanhope, his glamorous wife Christabel and his pretty daughters, sensible Betty and neurotic Eleanor, have invited a couple of guests to their mansion "Waldemere"; Vincent James, the "weekend perennial -- charming and a bit thick" and Nick Wood, an attractive young man about whom little is known. What is odd is that Dwight Stanhope's valuable paintings, including a Rembrandt, have been moved from the burglarproof gallery to the main floor, and their insurance policy has been cancelled. Everyone in the mansion (built by Flavia Jenner, a Victorian actress of easy virtue, and including her own private theatre) has the jitters. No one is really surprised when there's a huge clatter in the middle of the night and a masked burglar is found stabbed in front of the paintings—but everyone is amazed to see that the dead burglar is Dwight Stanhope.
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Acton, The Last Bourbons of Naples, p. 306 In spite of family intrigues, he was loyal to his brother Ferdinand II. Because he did not bother Ferdinand II with petitions, Francis was well liked by the king.Acton, The Last Bourbons of Naples, p. 319 Like his brothers, the Count of Syracuse and the Count of Aquila, Trapani had a weakness for women of easy virtue, but he did not get involve in scandals.Acton, The Last Bourbons of Naples, p. 343 At Ferdinand II's death on 22 May 1859, Trapani was entrusted with handling the army.Acton, The Last Bourbons of Naples, p. 385 During the short reign of his nephew King Francis II, Trapani, lacking in political acumen, provided him with little help in the critical time of the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicillies.Acton, The Last Bourbons of Naples, p. 432 After the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies fell in 1861 during the Expedition of the Thousand, the royal family went into exile.
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