Wynant was recently divorced from his wife - later introduced as Mimi who had since remarried - because he was conducting an affair with his pretty blonde secretary/mistress Julia Wolf (Natalie Moorhead).Throughout many years of stage and screen performances of theCamilletale, the heroine had been played by various leading ladies on the screen, including Oda Alstrup (1907), Gertrude Shipman (1912), Sarah Bernhardt (1912), Clara Kimball Young (1915), Theda Bara (1917), Alla Nazimova (in a 1921 film with Rudolph Valentino), Norma Talmadge (1927), Yvonne Printemps (1934 in a French production), and others on the stage including Eleanora Duse (a debut performance in 1893), Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, and Eva Le Gallienne.After returning home, Murtaugh spoke to Hong, and learned that his uncle, an artist in China, had paid for his passage to America (for a "chance to make good life")....I knew it was too good to be true.I parked right near the hospital."Miles was also encouraged to smoke by Dr.Orva to calm him down: "Here, you smoke this.And be sure you get the smoke deep down into your lungs...It""s tobacco! It""s one of the healthiest things for your body.Now go ahead." Miles took a puff and then mentioned his long-lost stock portfolio: "You know, I bought Polaroid at seven.The film""s climactic final revelation, from Princess to Creature, was an inverted "Beauty and the Beast" plot element.