A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000337
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THE WOMEN (19 3 9) 323 The year '39 also saw a reversal of the usual allmale cast, in an all-female screen version of Clare Booth's play, The Women, directed with verve and noise by George Cukor. One of the picture's more ladylike moments is reflected in the shot above, which reveals, in the traditional sequence, Norma Shearer, Joan Fontaine, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Mary Boland. Space and the censor do not permit a showing of the lady who sat in the bathtub, impersonated by Joan Crawford. BELOW Here is Rosalind Russell in a somewhat tamer mood. The picture is His Girl Fridaij, a remake of The Front Page, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play. In this version Hildy Johnson, star reporter, becomes Hilda Johnson. Howard Hawks directed this fast and funny film for Columbia in 1940. With Miss Russell here are Cary Grant and Gene Lockhart.