The Women (1939 film)

The Women is a 1939 American comedydrama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luces play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code in order for it to be released.

Filmed in black and white, it includes a tenminute fashion parade filmed in Technicolor, featuring Adrians most outr designs often cut in modern screenings, it has been restored by Turner Classic Movies. On DVD, the original black and white fashion show, which is a different take, is available for the first time.The Women follows the lives of Manhattan women, focusing in particular on Mary Haines Norma Shearer, the cheerful, contented wife of Stephen and mother of Little Mary Virginia Weidler. After a bit of gossip flies around the salon these wealthy women visit, Marys cousin Sylvia Fowler Rosalind Russell goes to a Salon to get the newest, exclusive nail color Jungle Red. She learns from a manicurist that Marys husband has been having an affair with a predatory perfume counter girl named Crystal Allen Joan Crawford. A notorious gossip, Sylvia delights in sharing the news with Marys friends she sets up Mary with an appointment with the same manicurist so that she hears the rumor about Stephens infidelity. ........

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