The Curse of Vilma Valentine

In 1969 Virginia Dofstader wins the Valentine lookalike contest publicizing "The Curse of Vilma Valentine" by literary heavyweight Gerald Carstairs. In the course of the book's promotion, it is discovered that Virginia's mother looks even more like Vilma than Miss Dofstader does.

As notorious in death as in life, Vilma haunts the imagination of aficionados of 1940s movies. Did she really kill all those husbands? Was she a Nazi spy? Was she truly responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

Her story, a suspenseful stew of WWII saboteurs, stolen European artworks, murders and massacres, is told in the words of major Hollywood figures-lovers, friends, enemies, and Vilma herself. It's all seasoned with a knowing dose of romantic comedy.