Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 1939
Country: USA
Runtime: 133
Rating: 7.3 (0)
Languages: English, Italian
Director: George Cukor
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

The Female Of The Species . . . when the men arent watching !

Its all about men!

The years mightiest cast in the hit play that tells on the women!

Writing by: Clare Boothe Luce - (play) (as Clare Boothe)
Anita Loos - (screenplay) and
Jane Murfin - (screenplay)
F. Scott Fitzgerald - uncredited and
Donald Ogden Stewart - uncredited

Produced by: Hunt Stromberg - producer

Cast: Norma Shearer - Mrs. Stephen Haines (Mary)
Joan Crawford - Crystal Allen
Rosalind Russell - Mrs. Howard Fowler (Sylvia)
Mary Boland - The Countess De Lave
Paulette Goddard - Miriam Aarons
Phyllis Povah - Mrs. Phelps Potter (Edith)
Joan Fontaine - Mrs. John Day (Peggy)
Virginia Weidler - Little Mary
Lucile Watson - Mrs. Morehead
Marjorie Main - Lucy
Virginia Grey - Pat (perfume counter clerk)

Music: David Snell Edward Ward
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Plot Outline: Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler...
Plot: 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 Fowlers husband). While they are at Lucys dude ranch, Fowler arrives for her own divorce and the Countess meets fifth husband-to-be Buck. Back in New York, Marys ex is now unhappily married to Crystal who is already in an affair with Buck. When Sylvia lets this story slip at a country club dinner, Crystal brags of her plans for a still wealthier marriage, only to find the Countess is the source of all Bucks money. Crystal must return to the perfume counter and Mary runs back to her husband.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the opening credits, before the photo images of the actresses are shown, their characters are revealed by images of various animals.

Goofs: We know about 9 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Crystal is taking her bath she smokes a cigarette, which she eventually throws away. However when Little Mary enters the bathroom, Crystal is again smoking and we never see her lightning this other cigarette.

Trivia: There are 13 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• There are over 130 roles in this movie, all played by women. Phyllis Povah, Marjorie Main, Mary Cecil and Marjorie Wood originated their roles in the play, which opened on 7 September 1937 and had 666 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York. No doubles were used in the fight sequence where Rosalind Russell bites Paulette Goddard. Despite the permanent scar resulting from the bite, the actresses remained friends.
• Though many people view Joan Crawford as the "bad girl" of the movie, Clare Boothe Luce, who wrote (as Clare Boothe) the play that the film was based on, sympathized most with Crystal Allen, Crawfords character.
• In addition to its all-female cast, every animal that was used in the film (the many dogs and horses) was female as well. In addition, none of the works of art seen in the backgrounds were representative of the male form.

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