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Women (The)
- Director: George Cukor
- Writer: Clare Boothe Luce; Anita Loos
- Producer: Hunt Stromberg
CGiii Comment
The 2008 re-make was a disaster...and, this ain't much better!
Too long by far, too middle-class, too white, too conservative...too mediocre and not a man in sight...and, directed by a big nancy.
It's all too much.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a Reno divorce Mary meets the Countess and Miriam (in an affair with Fowler's husband). While they are at Lucy's dude ranch, Fowler arrives for her own divorce and the Countess meets fifth husband-to-be Buck. Back in New York, Mary's ex is now unhappily married to Crystal who is already in an affair with Buck. When Sylvia lets this story slip at an exclusive nightclub, Crystal brags of her plans for a still wealthier marriage, only to find the Countess is the source of all Buck's money. Crystal must return to the perfume counter and Mary runs back to her husband.
Cast & Characters
Norma Shearer as Mrs. Stephen Haines;
Joan Crawford as Crystal Allen;
Rosalind Russell as Mrs. Howard Fowler;
Mary Boland as The Countess De Lave;
Paulette Goddard as Miriam Aarons;
Phyllis Povah as Mrs. Phelps Potter;
Joan Fontaine as Mrs. John Day;
Virginia Weidler as Little Mary;
Lucile Watson as Mrs. Morehead;
Marjorie Main as Lucy;
Virginia Grey as Pat;
Ruth Hussey as Miss Watts;
Muriel Hutchison as Jane;
Hedda Hopper as Dolly Dupuyster;
Florence Nash as Nancy Blake