Kit clattered the phone down in the middle of a wealthy dowager's tirade and snatched up the radio.

My mother knows of a hardware-store owner on the Cape who, when asked by a wealthy dowager what on earth the local residents did after the summer folk departed, replied: "Madam, we fumigate."

We decided to take those same elements - three crazy guys, a wealthy dowager and the Sig Ruman character - which are still viable today.

The Case of the Dangerous Dowager (1937) - Mason is hired to retrieve a spoiled granddaughter's gambling IOUs by a wealthy cigar-smoking dowager.

Thereafter no one dared be pleasant to this youngster who had enraged the wealthy dowager who domineered it over the social community.

She impersonates a wealthy dowager and succeeds in her ruse long enough to enjoy herself and eventually marry the dowager's son.

Groucho pursues a wealthy dowager ripe for a swindle, played by the dignified Margaret Dumont.

We also see the sisters' elderly grandmother, a sly, wealthy dowager who brings the feuding siblings together in the end and settles property on them.

His own bloody-minded grandfather had begun his social rise by forcibly wedding-and promptly bedding-the elderly and wealthy dowager Lady Lovat.

She moved permanently to the USA (although she never became a U.S. citizen) in 1939 and appeared both on stage and in Hollywood films where she usually played wealthy dowagers.