The Women

The Women

1939 | 2h 13m | Comedy, Romance | TV-PG

Brief Synopsis

A group of gossipy high-society women spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

George Cukor

CAST

Norma Shearer

Joan Crawford

Rosalind Russell

Mary Boland

Paulette Goddard

Phyllis Povah

Joan Fontaine

Virginia Weidler

Lucile Watson

Marjorie Main

Virginia Grey

Ruth Hussey

PRODUCERS

Hunt Stromberg

WRITERS

Anita Loos

Jane Murfin

Clare Boothe Luce

Host Intros

02:19
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- The Women (1939)
Intro Aired: Jul 2019
Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Women, 1939.
01:40
Alicia Malone Intro -- The Women (1939)
Intro Aired: Mar 2019
TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Women, 1939.
02:19
Robert Osborne Intro -- The Women (1939)
Intro Aired: Nov 2015
Robert Osborne introduces The Women, 1939.

Related Videos

Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Mrs. Prowler
Clip
Devious shop-girl Crystal (Joan Crawford) is on the phone with the never-seen paramour Stephen, when friends of his wife, Sylvia (Rosalind Russell) and Edith (Phyllis Povah), arrive to check her out, in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.
Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Into The Future
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Sybil Harris is the commentator setting up the famous eye-candy Technicolor fashion-show sequence, gowns by Adrian, in George Cukor's The Women, 1939, from the Claire Booth play.
Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) If You Knew This Girl
Clip
Peggy Day (Joan Fontaine) and Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) enter Sydney's salon where the chatty Olga (Dennie Moore) does Mary's nails and recklessly dishes on Mr. Haines, in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.
Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Blithering Coward
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Peggy (Joan Fontaine) is daffy, having just reconciled with her husband on the phone, prompting Miriam (Paulette Goddard) to give Mary (Norma Shearer) an overdue talking-to, at the Reno dude ranch in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.
Women, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) That's French For Love
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On the ladies' train to Reno seeking divorces, the Countess (Mary Boland) introduces herself to Mary (Norma Shearer) and recruits Miriam (Paulette Goddard), in George Cukor's The Women, 1939.
03:25
Women, The - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
A happily married woman (Norma Shearer) lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband has an affair with shopgirl Joan Crawford in The Women (1939), directed by George Cukor.

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