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A scene with Norma Shearer

CAST: Norma Shearer as Mary Haines, Joan Crawford as Crystal Allen, Paulette Goddard as Miriam Aarons, Joan Fontaine as Peggy Day, Rosalind Russell as Sylvia Fowler, Mary Boland as the Countess DeLave

DIRECTOR: George Cukor

PLOT: Mary Haines thinks she has the perfect life until she discovers that her husband is having an affair with Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and her other friends spend most of their time gossiping about Mary's troubled marriage. Mary decides to get a divorce and goes to Reno with her friend, Peggy. They meet Miriam Aarons and the Countess DeLave who are also getting divorced. Mary tries to cope with the end of her marriage while the other women deal with their own tumultuous love lives.        
 

A publicity photo of Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer

NOTES

- It is based on the play by Clare Booth Luce

- The costumes were designed by Adrian

- It was made with an entirely female cast

- Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford did not get along with each other

- It was one of the top-grossing movies of 1939

- In 1956 The Women was remade as a musical called The Opposite Sex with Joan Blondell and June Allyson

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