"The Women"

Now. TMC, 11:00AM CST

I'm so glad you enjoy my movie, Della!
Meg
The best thing about being single is you can spread out in bed like a swastika!
Dyslexic Della: TMC is The Movie Channel. "The Women" is on TCM.
ooops. I stand corrected,r3. Will hats ever come back?
Della
Does anyone still wear a hat?
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Its the hats that make them all seem so dated. When they are in their houses without the hats (and gloves) they all look fairly modern in dress.
Who is the costume designer? I missed the opening credits.
Della
Adrian.
Adrian? Good. I'm glad it wasn't Orry-Kelly. He's my favorite Hollywood costume designer and I'm relieved to know these lesser designs aren't his. Perhaps Adrian deliberately went lower drawer in service of the story.
Della
Oh l'amour l'amour!
When I worked retail I liked to say "Might I be of assistance?" just like Joan Crawford.
The fashion show -- in color -- in the middle is so random and unnecessary.
R11 did you rub perfume in the crook of your elbow for married men to smell? When colour was more of a novelty the fashion show must have had a Wizard of Oz effect but it does look silly.
The man who can explain how he loves his wife and also loves the other woman is gonna get that prize they hand out every year in Sweden...
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I like the random fashion show!!
Our new one piece lace foundation garment! Zips up the back and no bones!
HATED. THIS. MOVIE.
R17 Did you prefer the Meg Ryan/Debra Messing version?
"You should have licked that girl where she licked you . . .".
Genius film.
It frightens me when you mention that, R18.
"Really, something ought to be done to protect New York!"
And "The Wizard of Oz" starts in a few minutes, and "Liz and Dick" later. WTF is it a gay holiday and nobody told me?
Apparently, Adrian was pushed by MGM to go to the limits with not only the fashion show but with all of the costumes in the hopes of predicting the latest Paris trends by the time the film appeared. Unfortunately, Hitler and the Occupation of Paris got in the way of the latest Paris trends and Adrian looked like a fool.
I know it's popular with gays and all, but it was really Norma Shearer at her worst - mannered and hammy, using all of her old tricks from her silent films days and talking at the same time. Exhausting. Joan Fontaine went to school with Jennifer Jones - Our Lady of Fluttery Mannerisms.
Della, with which of the women do you most closely identify and why?
R18 - the Norma Shearer version. I started a Netflix account and specifically got it as one of my first movies. I thought I should catch up on the movies that people kept mentioning here. (I don't get TCM in my cable package.) Sorry, but I hated it. Thankfully the other movie I got was "Outrage". That was a good movie.
R17
"L'amour! L'amour!" Indeed. L'amour le merrier!
LOL, r23!
Get me a bromide...! ...And put some gin in it!!!
L'amour, l'amour, that's French for love. Give me a bromide - and put some gin in it!
The Countess
This is a classic. Yes, Shearer and Fontaine and the actress who played little Mary are unberarable at times with their overacting. But the dialogue is outstanding, Russell and Goddard are great, and it all in all great fun.
I wish I had known this was on. I would have made Pancakes Barbara!
I had forgotten that Joan Fontaine was in The Women. I finally watched Suspicion tonight for the first time and loved it.
Phyllis Povah, who plays the perennially pregnant Mrs. Phelps (Edith) Potter, was the one holdover from the original Broadway cast. I'm sure Cukor and Metro knew they could never cast that rather unflattering (but delectable) role with anyone in their stable of stars. Arlene Francis was also in the Broadway cast playing several small roles but she didn't make it to Hollywood.
The best line from the original Clare Booth Luce script for Broadway was cut. It was said by Sylvia (Roz Russell) when she looked at Crystal (Joan Crawford) as she emerged from her bath tub: "Why Crystal, I always assumed you were a natural blonde!" And it wasn't cut because Crawford was a brunette.
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I agree with R25 about Shearer, she was really bad in this. Crawford, on the other hand, was at her best.
Joan Crawford was delicious in this.
Crawford is so wonderful that she more than makes up for Shearer's mannered nobility. Of course Stephen was looking for fun after ten years of you! I don't mind Fontaine's fluttery qualities because it works for her dippy ding-a-ling character. Crawford, Russell, Goddard and La Countess are more than enough to make it work. Nuts?
With Marjorie Main! Also from the stage production.
What is the name of the actress who plays Nancy, the author who is invited to Mary's tea party, says: I ought to go to you for my plots,then Nuts? and then disappears until the final scene? She must have been somewhat important because she is seen in group photo ops of all the picture's stars.
r26- a combination of the gossipy, bean-spilling manicurist and the manager of the gown store where wife and the "other woman" come face-to-face. Yes, Joan Crawford's Crystal is the most interesting character here.
Della
Forgot to add, r26, I really don't identify with any of the main characters here. I do, however, know these types of women in real life. I admire their frautastic ability to do what it takes to obtain and maintain their "positions"; I just don't have those survival skills.
Della
I think it is one the funniest wittiest films ever made, still funny and relevant over 70 years later!.
charlie
Well, it was my birthday, R23!
Jungle Red.
The remake with Jada Pinkett Smith and Bette Midler is much better than the original.
Sure, R47. What u smokin'?
R41 that is Florence Nash who did some work on Broadway and just 3 movies. She may look familiar to some of us because she is the sister of Mary Nash who played the evil Fraulein Rottenmeier in Shirley Temple's HEIDI and the mother of Katharine Hepburn in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. There is a definite family resemblance. I love the way she lit and held her cigarette in her first scene in THE WOMEN.
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[quote]evil Fraulein Rottenmeier I think this is the first time I've seen a DL reference to "Fraulein". I'm so used to "Frau."
I like Dennie Moore as Olga, who sets the whole plot in motion
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Thanks r49. Florence Nash as the lady author is clearly meant to be a lesbian to those viewers who are not blind. Is she even more overtly written as a lesbian in the play?
Also starring Hedda Hopper as gossip columnist Dolly dePyster. Was Hedda actually a columnist in real life by then?