Idiot's Delight
When song-and-dance man Harry Van returns from World War I, he finds work hard to come by. His greatest success comes as straight man in a phony vaudeville mind-reading act with the tipsy Madame Zulieka. While on tour in Omaha he meets acrobat Irene Fellara, and they have a brief romance. Twenty years later while Harry is on tour in Europe with a troupe of leggy blonde dancers, his train is stopped at the Swiss border and he finds himself stranded in the Alps in anticipation of World War II hostilities. Harry and his chorines take refuge in an Alpine hotel with a group of disparate travelers who are also marooned there. Among them are an American pacifist, British newlyweds, a cancer researcher, a German munitions manufacturer, and a beautiful blonde expatriate Russian aristocrat who looks suspiciously like the Irene of two decades earlier.
8 December 1905, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
April 30, 1913 in London, England, UK
21 February 1880, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 December 1870, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3 January 1890, New York City, New York, USA
1 February 1901, Cadiz, Ohio, USA
September 22, 1886 in Virginia City, Nevada, USA
16 November 1907, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
March 15, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 10, 1910 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
22 August 1891, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
July 10, 1914 in Porterville, California, USA
July 19, 1903 in Eastman, Wisconsin, USA
18 February 1902, Brookhaven, Mississippi, USA
12 December 1879, San Francisco, California, USA
November 2, 1877 in New York City, New York, USA
July 20, 1885 in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA
29 December 1892, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
June 4, 1896 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
December 13, 1892 in Clifton, Virginia, USA
February 27, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
February 15, 1898 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
15 May 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
10 August 1902, Montréal, Québec, Canada
18 February 1890, New York City, New York, USA
July 28, 1891 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
September 3, 1883 in New Britain, Connecticut, USA
17 August 1882, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
15 October 1900, Berlin, Germany

