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The Women (1939)
In director George Cukor's adaptation of Clare Boothe's
legendary stage comedy with an all-female cast:
- the opening credits that represented each of the
leading lady stars as an animal before dissolving into a close-up
- a Technicolor Fashion Show sequence
- the Sylvia/Peggy (Rosalind Russell-Joan Fontaine)
exercise/work-out scene
- the sequence of a rough, dirty-fighting brawl (including
a leg bite) at a dude (divorce) ranch in Reno between Miriam Aarons
(Paulette Goddard) and Sylvia (Mrs. Howard Fowler)
- Mary Haines' (Norma Shearer) "women are equal" speech
- the acidic dialogue including gold-digging shopgirl
Crystal Allen's (Joan Crawford) final parting words:
"...there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society,
outside of a kennel"
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