The women [videorecording (DVD)] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Hunt Stromberg ; screenplay by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin ; directed by George Cukor.
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] /
Publisher:
Warner Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2002
Description:
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequence ; 4 3/4 in.
Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Phyllis Povah, Joan Fontaine, Virginia Weidler, Lucile Watson. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Based on the play The women by Clare Boothe. Includes two documentaries (From the ends of the earth, and Hollywood : style center of the world), alternate b&w fashion show sequence, 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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