jason_els
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Auntie Mame is my all time favorite movie, period. And then anything with Rosalind Russell. The Women is a close second.
TCM is doing an all-day Rosalind Russell tribute so be sure to catch The Women and His Girl Friday too.
The Women is an amazing movie. Well worth getting on DVD. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, and great character performances from Mary Boland and Phyllis Povah. Originally written as a play by Clare Booth Luce, adapted to the screen by Anita Loos, and directed by a gay man, George Cukor! Talk about a mass of extraordinary talent in one place! The quality of the writing is extraordinary and stands-up beautifully even today. This is an old film that doesn't seem remotely old. The writing is too sharp and the characters too contemporary.
There's a great fully Technicolor fashion show sequence AND, most extraordinarily, there's not a single male in any frame of the film. Not a photograph or painting. Even the animals are female. The Women should be more of a comedy classic than it is but was rarely seen due to rights issues and the horrendous state of the surviving prints. After some exceptional restoration work, The Women is back in stunning form and an absolute must for anyone who loves comedies of manners from the Golden Age of Hollywood.