Raised by a flamboyant single mother, who supported herself and her daughter by performing all-female productions of Shakespeare's plays in rural France, Lettice Douffet comes by her grandiose Drama Queen gestures honestly; and JoAnne Dickinson makes her a real pip. But it is Lynda Clark who steals the show as the straitlaced Lotte Schoen loosens up, and confesses to a misspent youth that matches -- and, in some cases, exceeds -- the checkered past of Lettice Douffet.

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