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 Overview:
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.
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.The Women was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007.
BlogHub Articles:
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell are “The Women”
By Stephen Reginald on Feb 10, 2026 From Classic Movie ManNorma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell are “The Women” The Women (1939), directed by George Cukor, is a biting, high-society comedy-drama unique for its entirely female cast—not a single man appears on screen. However, their influence looms over every scene. The st... Read full article
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
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Quotes from
Crystal Allen: There is a name for you, ladies, but it isn't used in high society... outside of a kennel.
Crystal Allen: I'm having him dine at my place. It's about time he found out I was a home girl.
Pat: A home girl? Get her? Why don't you borrow the quintuplets for the evening?
Crystal Allen: Because I'm all the baby he wants, pet.
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Facts about
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.
"The Women's" screenwriter Anita Loos who wrote this film's original 1939 screenplay, started her writing career in 1912 with her first full film screenplay The Musketeers of Pig Alley starring Lillian Gish and directed by D.W. Griffith for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. which is still in existence today. After writing many scripts for Biograph, Loos went on to write such other films such as Saratoga, Another Thin Man, San Francisco, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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