Adelaide Film Festival 2005 | A Biennial Film Festival held in Adelaide, Australia | Films The Women

George Cukor, USA 1939 Rated G  

Not a man in sight, but the ladies obsess unabated and feed on gossip to devastating effect. Scripted by Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and Jane Murfin, The Women features an extraordinary all-female cast of 135. Rosalind Russell shines as chief scandalmonger and Joan Crawford's depiction of an indomitable gold digger is unsurpassed. With a directorial emphasis on piercing dialogue, the ferocious felines of Cukor's '30s classic make the Sex and the City girls seem like pussycats.

Reviews

“There are no dumb blondes or doormats; all of these women know the score and can tot it up in their heads without a calculator.”

Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian

“A perfect cast.”

Philip French, The Observer

“Years ahead of its time.”

David Thomson, The Independent

“A sugar-rush of pre-post-feminist comedy.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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When

5:15 PM Sunday, 27 February
Buy Tickets Online
Greater Union - Cinema 2

Ticket Price

Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10

As Part Of

Screen Goddess

About The Women

133 minutes
35mm
1.37:1
In English

Print Source

British Film Institute

Phil Hills
phil.hills@bfi.org.uk

Festivals

Cambridge 2004

About the Director

George Cukor

Born in New York, George Cukor (1899-1983) worked as a Broadway director before turning to feature film directing with Grumpy in 1930. During his 50 year Hollywood career, he earned the reputation as a Hollywood master guiding his leading ladies to eight nominations for Best Actress, and himself being nominated five times for Best Director at the Oscars.

Filmography

Rich and Famous (1981)
The Blue Bird (1976)
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
Justine (1969)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Something's Got to Give (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
Let's Make Love (1960)
Song Without End (1960)
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Hot Spell (1958)
Wild Is the Wind (1957)
Les Girls (1957)
Lust for Life (1956)
Bhowani Junction (1956)
A Star Is Born (1954)
It Should Happen to You (1954)
The Actress (1953)
Pat and Mike (1952)
The Marrying Kind (1952)
The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)
Born Yesterday (1950)
A Life of Her Own (1950)
Adam's Rib (1949)
Edward, My Son (1949)
A Double Life (1947)
Desire Me (1947)
I'll Be Seeing You (1945)
Winged Victory (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Resistance and Ohm's Law (1943)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
Two-Faced Woman (1941)
A Woman's Face (1941)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Susan and God (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Women (1939)
Zaza (1939)
Holiday (1938)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
I Met My Love Again (1938)
Camille (1936)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
No More Ladies (1935)
David Copperfield (1935)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Little Women (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Our Betters (1933)
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
Rockabye (1932)
A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
One Hour with You (1932)
Girls About Town (1931)
Tarnished Lady (1931)
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
Virtuous Sin (1930)
Grumpy (1930)