Title from container. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Phyllis Povah, Joan Fontaine, Virginia Weidler, Lucile Watson. Based on the play The women by Clare Boothe. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Special features: two documentaries (From the ends of the earth, and Hollywood : style center of the world), alternate blanck-and-white fashion show sequence with different footage, scoring session music cues, theatrical trailer, and the theatrical trailer for the 1956 musical remake, The opposite sex.
Summary:
Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
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