There was a migical time when women came with a dowry (money and land!) instead of just showing up and taking half of everything you own. Half! It's why things were so much better during the classic age of film. Such is the story in Harridan and the Seine. A classic Sam Austin faux-Dickensian melodrama and an award-winning performance by Miriam Turner, cast in a perfect role for the wistful, dreamy facial expressions she'd overwrought to such great effect in the silent movies of the 1920s. Turner plays the beautiful but naïve Connie Lavell, a middle-class girl who, like all dumb skirts, falls for a foreigner. It wasn't the landscaper, which I can tell you IS insult to injury, but he was a Frenchman. After begging her father to pay a dowry of $100, she marries Bernard and moves to Paris, on