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Product Details

Release Date:	03/13/2018
UPC:	0888574642235
Original Release:	1939
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Archives
Time:	2:13:00
Sales rank:	7,533

Special Features

2 Vintage Documentaries: From the Ends of the Earth and Hollywood Style Center of the World Alternate Black-and-White Fashion-Show Sequence with Different Footage Scoring Session Music Cues Theatrical Trailers of The Women (1939) and Musical Remake: The Opposite Sex

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Norma Shearer	Mary Haines
Joan Crawford	Chrystal Allen
Rosalind Russell	Sylvia Fowler
Mary Boland	Countess DeLove
Joan Fontaine	Peggy Day
Paulette Goddard	Miriam Aarons
Phyllis Povah	Edith Potter
Virginia Weidler	Little Mary
Lucile Watson	Mrs. Moorhead, Mary's Mother
Florence Nash	Nancy Blake
Esther Dale	Ingrid, Country House Cook
Ann Morriss	Exercise Instructor
Ruth Hussey	Miss Watts, Stephen's Secretary
Mary Beth Hughes	Miss Trimmerback
Virginia Grey	Pat, Perfume Counter Clerk
Marjorie Main	Lucy, Dude Ranch Owner
Cora Witherspoon	Mrs. Van Adams
Hedda Hopper	Dolly Dupuyster
Dorothy Adams	Miss Atkinson
Ruth Alder	Woman Under Sunlamp
Mariska Aldrich	Singing Teacher
Barbara Jo Allen	Receptionist
Judith Allen	Model
Maude Allen	Cyclist
Gertrude Astor	Nurse
May Beatty	Fat Woman
Marie Blake	Stock Room Girl
Betty Blythe	Actor
May Boley	Actor
Lillian Bond	Mrs. Erskine
Veda Buckland	Woman
Lita Chevret	Woman Under Sunlamp
Dora Clement	Woman Under Sunlamp
Nell Craig	Nurse
Margaret Dumont	Mrs. Wagstaff
Estelle Etterre	Hairdresser
Dot Farley	Large Woman
Flora Finch	Woman Window Tapper
Ruth Findlay	Pediatrist
Grace Goodall	Head Saleswoman
Rita Gould	Dietician
Theresa Harris	Olive
Winifred Harris	Mrs. North
Grace Hayle	Cyclist
Virginia Howell	Receptionist
Carol Hughes	Salesgirl at Modiste Salon
Muriel Hutchinson	Jane, Mary's Maid
Priscilla Lawson	Hairdresser
Hattie McDaniel	Sleeping Car Maid
Leila McIntyre	Woman With Bundles
Butterfly McQueen	Lulu, Cosmetics Counter Maid
Dennie Moore	Olga, Manicurist
Natalie Moorhead	Woman in Modiste Salon
Florence O'Brien	Euphie
Hilda Plowright	Miss Fordyce
Aileen Pringle	Miss Carter, Saleslady
Jo Ann Sayers	Debutante
Dorothy Sebastian	Saleswoman
Peggy Shannon	Mrs. Jones
Mildred Shay	Helene the French Maid
Florence Shirley	Miss Archer
Gertrude Simpson	Stage Mother
Charlotte Treadway	Her Companion
Vera Vague	Receptionist
Josephine Whittell	Mrs. Spencer
Marjorie Wood	Sadie, Old Maid in Powder Room
Charlotte Wynters	Miss Batchelor

Technical Credits

George Cukor	Director
Adrian	Costumes/Costume Designer
George Forrest	Songwriter
Cedric Gibbons	Art Director
Robert J. Kern	Editor
Anita Loos	Screenwriter
Oliver Marsh	Cinematographer
Jane Murfin	Screenwriter
Wade B. Rubottom	Art Director
Joseph Ruttenberg	Cinematographer
David Snell	Score Composer
Hunt Stromberg	Producer
Ed Ward	Songwriter
Edward Ward	Score Composer
Edwin B. Willis	Set Decoration/Design
Robert Wright	Songwriter
F. Fitzgerald	Source Author

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- The Women
1. Credits and Menagerie [3:16]
2. Sydney's Salon [2:39]
3. Something About Mary [2:01]
4. Lovey-Dovey Stuff [5:22]
5. Spiders in the Parlor [4:30]
6. Sorry, Darling [3:42]
7. From the Source [3:43]
8. Motherly Advice [6:01]
9. Stephen Calling [6:03]
10. Customer (lip) Service [2:23]
11. Divinely Happy [3:45]
12. Fashion Show [6:41]
13. Facing Fittings [4:12]
14. Supportive Sylvia [2:33]
15. Confrontation [3:22]
16. Getting a Workout [5:12]
17. Showdown Report [4:50]
18. Divorce Details [5:14]
19. Fallen Out of Love [4:32]
20. Train for Reno [2:30]
21. Three Comrades [3:55]
22. Double Bar T Ranch [2:16]
23. Courtship Phases [3:16]
24. Gathering of the Clan [3:58]
25. Sylvia's High-Sterics [2:45]
26. Peggy's News [2:30]
27. Custer's Last Stand [3:41]
28. Alone with Her Pride [2:46]
29. Young Mary Understands [4:25]
30. Cat's Out Of The Bath [3:41]
31. Class Reunion [3:41]
32. The Lying Truth [5:02]
33. Sylvia Takes the Bait [4:27]
34. A Name for You Ladies [3:59]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [11:06]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [10:20]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [6:13]
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1
0. Chapters
1. Chapter 1 [3:45]

Disc #1 -- The Women
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Scene Selections
   Start Movie
Special Features
   Cast & Crew
   Behind the Scenes
   MGM Short Subjuct "Hollywood Style: Center of the World"
   MGM Short Subject "From the Ends of the Earth: Another Romance of Celluloid"
   Scoring Stage Sessions
      Play All
   Alternate "Fashion Show" Sequence
   Trailers
      Theatrical Trailer
      "The Opposite Sex" Trailer
Languages
   Spoken Languages
      English
      Français
   Subtitles
      English
      Français
      Español
      Português
      Subtitles: Off

Videos

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Editorial Reviews

The themes explored in Clare Boothe Luce's play were so modern in 1939 that audiences found the film audaciously relevant, yet so timeless and universal that The Women could be successfully revived on Broadway in 2001, starring Jennifer Tilly, Kristen Johnson, and Cynthia Nixon. The film crackles with a sharp-toothed sarcasm even on a modern viewing. George Cukor's deft pacing and evident facility with actors (or, we should say, actresses) make The Women both a scathing and hilarious indictment of the institution of marriage. No less important, in fact probably more so, is the film's portrayal of the women's mercenary competitiveness. The ruthlessly casual deceptions they practice on each other are authenticated by the playwright's gender, as well as that of her adapters (Anita Loos and Jane Murfin). The Women recasts the discourse of high society as an exercise in the Darwinism of the animal kingdom, starting with an opening credits sequence that assigns an animal role to each character, from sly fox to gentle lamb. The opening shot says it all, as two dogs aggressively (and metaphorically) yap at each other as their pampered owners restrain them, all against a cacophony of background gossip. The women's ironic commentary on the regimen of exercise and beautification they must maintain to keep their men takes over from here, as does the rapid repartees and the almost incidental backstabbing. Casting the film entirely with women works beautifully, never straining the logic or staging, and the handful of leads each share the credit with Luce and Cukor for a fully realized farce on the warfare of feminine politics and societal advantage. Derek Armstrong

Barnes & Noble

The themes explored in Clare Boothe Luce's play were so modern in 1939 that audiences found the film audaciously relevant, yet so timeless and universal that The Women could be successfully revived on Broadway in 2001, starring Jennifer Tilly, Kristen Johnston, and Cynthia Nixon. The film crackles with a sharp-toothed sarcasm even on a modern viewing. George Cukor's deft pacing and evident facility with actors (or, we should say, actresses) make The Women both a scathing and hilarious indictment of the institution of marriage. No less important, in fact probably more so, is the film's portrayal of the women's mercenary competitiveness. The ruthlessly casual deceptions they practice on each other are authenticated by the playwright's gender, as well as that of her adapters (Anita Loos and Jane Murfin). The Women recasts the discourse of high society as an exercise in the Darwinism of the animal kingdom, starting with an opening credits sequence that assigns an animal role to each character, from sly fox to gentle lamb. The opening shot says it all, as two dogs aggressively (and metaphorically) yap at each other as their pampered owners restrain them, all against a cacophony of background gossip. The women's ironic commentary on the regimen of exercise and beautification they must maintain to keep their men takes over from here, as does the rapid repartees and the almost incidental backstabbing. Casting the film entirely with women works beautifully, never straining the logic or staging, and the handful of leads each share the credit with Luce and Cukor for a fully realized farce on the warfare of feminine politics and societal advantage.

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