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# The Women (1939)

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The Women (1939)

## Product Details

- **Genre:** Drama, Comedy
- **Format:** NTSC
- **Contributor:** Dennie Moore, Rosalind Russell, Muriel Hutchison, Mary Boland, Lucile Watson, Paulette Goddard, Phyllis Povah, Virginia Weidler, Mary Cecil, Joan Fontaine, Virginia Grey, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Cora Witherspoon, Ruth Hussey, Hedda Hopper, Marjorie Main, Ann Morriss, George Cukor, Florence Nash, Mary Beth Hughes
- **Language:** English
- **Runtime:** 2 hours and 13 minutes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the greatest films of the 1930s.
*by J***F on May 13, 2019*

“The Women”, as the title suggests is what they called a “woman’s movie” in Hollywood’s classic era, so much so that forty-five minutes in, there is a fashion show and its five minutes are in color, contrasting with the rest of the film’s black and white two hour and eight minute running time (the better to show off the clothes). But it’s so much more than that.This is a great classic film that has always had a big cult following and which can be enjoyed on many levels. Essentially a comedy, it nevertheless exposes deep issues in the lives of women from their absolute dependence on men in that era to internal frictions among themselves. Admittedly these are all wealthy women leading cushioned lives, but even they have their problems, not the least of which is the boredom of their existence unless their marriage is truly good. Even then, watch out - jealous friends and gossips will do what they can to upset your happiness.It’s no accident that a popular nail polish is named “Jungle Red”. A great deal of “The Women” is conversation, sharp, witty, often cutting conversation at that. The film is so rapid fire at times you really have to see it twice to get it all; preferably one time with the closed captioning on.Much time has gone by since the filming of “The Women” and you need to appreciate that these women were really rather liberated for their day. As Norma Shearer’s Mary explains to her mother, played by Lucile Watson, “It’s alright for you to talk of another generation when women were chattels and did what men told them to. But this is today! Stephen and I are equals.” Women still lived in almost entirely female worlds outside the home, but were relatively free to come and go as they pleased, at least if they could afford to.The cast was famously all-female as it was in Clare Boothe Luce’s hit Broadway play (written as Clare Boothe in 1936). An amazing cast of big stars and up and comers was assembled for this film. It opens with clever cameos showing each actress with an animal that represents their inner character. Norma Shearer as central character Mary gives one of the best performances of her career in what would be one of her last films. She is especially good and down to earth in her scenes with her daughter, played by Virginia Weidler. No one could have been better as her nemesis than Joan Crawford’s scheming salesgirl, Crystal Allen, all venom and ice. Crawford got a considerable career boost from this film after a period of declining popularity. She was also known not to particularly care for Shearer at the studio, which added an extra element to it all.Others received enhanced careers as a result of “The Women”. Rosalind Russell had mostly played bland nice girls (as in “China Seas”) or the other woman ( in “West Point of the Air”) but here she got to show a comic persona which became her signature for years to come. Lucille Watson had frequently played maids with little or no dialog but from this time on became a notable character actor in films from “Watch On the Rhine” to “The Thin Man Goes Home”. Marjorie Main plays comic relief as a ranch manager in Reno and would play essentially the same character in many Ma and Pa Kettle films. Joan Fontaine is sweet and innocent (her usual film personna) and Paulette Goddard is stunning as Rosalind Russell’s nemesis.Mary Boland’s over-the-top Countess De Lave is a character you won’t forget, divorcing her fourth husband but always proclaiming, “L’amour, L’amour!” Even small characters like the maids, sales women and an exercise instructor have choice lines, and Hedda Hopper appears as a gossip columnist.This big production filled with so much talent and so many egos could have been a mess but it was all held together by director George Cukor. He was known as a woman’s director and had done great work before with Hepburn, Harlow, Shearer, Garbo, Crawford, Jeanette MacDonald (at Paramount) and others. He resented that epithet and notably did fine jobs with male actors, including Clark Gable (in “Manhattan Melodrama”). He took on “The Women” after Selznick dismissed him from “Gone With the Wind”. The dismissal story is so long and tangled with two competing versions that it would be too much to go into here. It’s enough to know that this is among the best of his many great films. Enjoy!EXTRA NOTE: Clare Boothe Luce was an amazing woman herself. She not only wrote for and edited magazines but wrote stories and plays as well as war journalism. She was a rare woman writing Broadway plays without a male writing partner, and writing one with an all-female cast was truly daring for her time. She went on to be a Republican Representative in Congress from Connecticut for several terms and eventually Ambassador to Italy. Her second marriage was to Henry Luce, Publisher of Time and Life magazines. Her third play, “Margin of Error”, was an attack on the Nazis’ racist ideas. She also co-authored a law allowing Indians and Filipinos to immigrate to the U.S. and called for the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic movie
*by R***I on May 25, 2025*

Great classic Hollywood movie, if you have a chance watch it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jungle Red, Sylvia! Jungle Red!
*by W***R on May 11, 2025*

SOOOO much fun to watch. Rosalind Russell 's exit from the perfume counter is PRICELESS!!!

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