In "No More Orchids" (1932), her second movie for Columbia, Lombard plays Annie Holt, a spoiled rich girl who comes to love a principled lawyer (Lyle Talbot) who won't marry for money.

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The second, Gregory La Cava's "My Man Godfrey" (on a DVD from Universal), casts her as a spoiled rich girl brought up short by William Powell, whom she mistakes for a bum and attempts to rehabilitate.

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Michael Nyqvist plays a slightly boring journalist named Blomkvist, who is hired by a rich old man (Sven-Bertil Taube) to probe the disappearance of a teen-age girl, forty years before.

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And yet somehow despite all the obvious pitfalls with true love between an impoverished teenaged human girl and a century old and super rich vampire man, their marriage as soon as she graduates from high school, her life-ending (and vampire beginning) pregnancy, people around the world have paid money in record numbers to see Breaking Dawn Part 2.

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But while Hilton is appropriately young, rich and well-connected, she's not exactly a cover girl for class, what with those sex tapes, drug charges and reality TV shows.

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The email was sent on 16 November 2011 after Ms Ecclestone had starred in Billion Dollar Girl, a reality television programme exploring her life as a rich youngster.

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The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig Christine, a young girl working in a postoffice in post-World War I Austria, has her life transformed when a rich aunt invites her to a resort in the Swiss Alps.

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