The Women (1939) | |
| Director(s) | George Cukor |
| Producer(s) | Hunt Stromberg |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Based on Play, Divorce, Infidelity, Sales Clerk |
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The Women (1939) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by George Cukor and produced by Hunt Stromberg.
SYNOPSIS
In a social satire as sharp as a cat's claw, Cukor pulls back the curtains of drawing rooms and ladies' lounges to expose the machinations that go into the war between women over men. Shearer has what she thinks is a happy marriage until meddlesome Russell connives to have her learn the truth about her husband's affair with store clerk Crawford. After a trip to Reno for a quickie divorce, she learns that her husband isn't pleased with Crawford. So Shearer paints her nails jungle red and enlists her friends to snare her husband from Crawford's clutches. Snappy, spiteful dialogue from Loos, based on the play by Luce, delivered by MGM's best actresses.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.The Women was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007.
BlogHub Articles:
Westward The Women (1951): A Fuller, Richer Kind of Western
By 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 15, 2022 From 4 Star FilmsMy only qualm with Westward The Women might be the title itself because otherwise, it’s a striking movie that should rightfully be heralded as a supremely significant western for the story it chooses to tell. At the very least, the title does make it evident that this is a story with women at ... Read full article
COMEDY GOLD #9: Gossip from The Women (1939)
By Carol Martinheira on Sep 27, 2018 From The Old Hollywood GardenCOMEDY GOLD #9: Gossip from The Women (1939) On September 27, 2018 By CarolIn Uncategorized Look, I like what The Women (1939) meant to do. I like the whole thing about it having an all-female cast, about it being about women and everything. Unfortunately, I’ve a... Read full article
The Women of Old Hollywood: Doris Day in That Touch of Mink
By Amanda Garrett on Apr 5, 2018 From Old Hollywood FilmsDoris Day and Cary Grant in a lobby card for That Touch of Mink (1962). This article is part of The Doris Day Blogathon hosted by Love Letters to Old Hollywood. It's also part of my series on Women in old Hollywood. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, actor and singer Doris Day created a chara... Read full article
The Women of Old Hollywood: Greta Garbo in Anna Christie and Camille
By Amanda Garrett on Nov 25, 2017 From Old Hollywood FilmsThis article is the first in an occasional series about the portrayal of women in old Hollywood films. Today, my focus is on Greta Garbo's roles in Anna Christie (photo above) and Camille (1936). This article is also part of The Greta Garbo Blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Holl... Read full article
From the Archives : The Women ( 1939 )
By The Metzinger Sisters on Aug 31, 2017 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film LoversTwo cats ready to show their claws......Rosalind Russell and Norma Shearer in a scene from MGM's classic comedy The Women ( 1939 ). In this scene, they are on friendly terms, but they'll begin their fight shortly! From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverb... Read full article
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Quotes from
Nancy Blake: [to Countess DeLave] Chin up.
Miriam Aarons: Right, both of them.
Miriam Aarons: [about Buck Winston] Well he could crack a coconut with those knees!... If he could get them together!
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Facts about
According to her autobiography, Rosalind Russell called in sick because Norma Shearer refused to share top billing. She stayed "sick" until Shearer finally relented.
The lines Mary reads alone in bed are from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran: "Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears," but MGM omitted the reference to "nakedness" to avoid offending the censors.
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