" She eagerly cooperates: "For a gold mine, I could be Cleopatra." He takes the boys upstairs and tricks them by having them present the deed to his wife instead of to the real Mary Roberts, his demure kitchen maid.The 1950s breadwinning ""father of the bride"" Stanley (Spencer Tracy) presided over a domestic suburban setting, including his wife Ellie Banks (Joan Bennett in her first film for MGM), his always-hungry teenaged son Tommy (Russ Tamblyn), collegiate-aged Ben (Tom Irish), and their eldest "only daughter" - 20 year-old sister Kay (nicknamed "Kitten"), a charming and beautiful young girl.He ordered his General Gozelle to take troops to Beruna to search for and seize Prince Caspian.The Pevensies learned how Old Narnia and its talking creatures had almost disappeared in the centuries since they had left and the Telmarines had taken over.Close by to the class, an educated orangutan named Virgil (Paul Williams), typical of his scientific-intellectual breeding, was strolling along discussing his advanced ideas about time relativity with two older students.