The Women
1939 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
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 Fowler's husband). While they are at Lucy's dude ranch, Fowler arrives for her own divorce and the Countess meets fifth husband-to-be Buck. Back in New York, Mary's 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 Buck's money. Crystal must return to the perfume counter and Mary runs back to her husband.
Direction George Cukor
Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland · Paulette Goddard · Joan Fontaine · Lucile Watson · Phyllis Povah · Virginia Weidler · Marjorie Main · Virginia Grey · Ruth Hussey · Muriel Hutchison · Hedda Hopper · Florence Nash · Cora Witherspoon · Ann Morriss · Dennie Moore · Mary Cecil · Mary Beth Hughes · Margaret Dumont
Soundtrack Edward Ward · David Snell
Screenplay Anita Loos · Jane Murfin · Clare Boothe
Cinematography Joseph Ruttenberg · Oliver T. Marsh
Original title The Women
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