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The Women
A reissue of George Cukor's sparkling 1939 comedy-drama based on the play by Clare Boothe Luce. Wealthy wife Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) learns that her husband Stephen is having an affair with a shop girl called Crystal (Joan Crawford). Advised by her gal pals Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) and Edith Potter (Phyllis Povah), Mary heads for Reno to file for divorce, where she finds herself embroiled in the equally tangled love lives of the Countess DeLave (Mary Boland) and Miriam Aarons (Paulette Goddard). These overlapping webs of intrigue allow Mary to reclaim her self-belief and fighting spirit, and to realise that she holds the balance of power in her bruised relationship with Stephen.
