"It's like a weird commune or something that nobody ever intended to exist," said Nathan Spondike, the artist whose landlady referred him to her priest.
In the late 40s I attended art college in Edinburgh, staying at home, which made a wild life impossible, but with the great advantage of being in the house to which came, on a Sunday evening, those of my fellow students who commuted weekly from Grangemouth, Bathgate, or Thornton Junction and whose landlady's idea of a Sunday supper was a single tinned-sardine on toast.
One night, while in a dive bar, he gets into a fight with the sailor and gets taken home by the prostitute (whose landlady warns her against letting men spend the night for free).
Irma P. Hall is wonderful as Marva Munson, the black landlady whose conveniently located root cellar Dorr is using for rehearsals of his "early Renaissance consort".
The opening attraction, at 2 p.m. tomorrow, is "The Talk of the Town," the 1942 Stevens comedy in which Arthur played a landlady whose academic boarder (Ronald Colman) shelters an innocent friend (Cary Grant) fleeing a murder charge.
Back pay for my childhood nanny?" Her resistance to self-critique rankles, especially given how keen she is on logging compliments ("Look at her, she's so beautiful," cries a random landlady whose own unattractiveness is carefully detailed; "You walk through the world and it's as if you're filled with light," declares the ex-boyfriend about whom she has nothing positive to say).
The landlady, whose name was Marilyn, dashed off to call Aunt Ruth, Uncle Walter's widow.
The two children, orphan and half orphan, are billeted with a benign but ineffectual landlady, Mrs. Bulpit, whose husband, she tells them, dropped dead while having his afternoon tea.
It's a relief when bit-parters pop their heads around the door: the landlady, the elderly lodger whose own lovelorn backstory is a rare snip from the original script.
Angie – landlady of the Queen Vic, whose eye makeup had more colours than a sunset – was pretending she had terminal cancer to get back at her cheating husband "Dirty Den Wattss.
In "Chocolat," directed by Lasse Hallstrom, Dame Judi plays the sickly, curmudgeonly landlady in a small French village whose ramshackle storefront becomes the chocolate shop of the story's title.
