{"id":9792,"date":"2015-03-23T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2015-03-23T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T03:31:11","slug":"the-women-1939-george-cukor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9792","title":{"rendered":"The Women (1939, George Cukor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A movie with only women in it &#8211; a feat unmatched until the upcoming <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9305\">Ghostbusters<\/a><\/em> remake!<\/p>\n<p>Norma Shearer (love interest of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6760\">He Who Gets Slapped<\/a><\/em>) ends up divorcing her husband after super-gossip Rosalind Russell (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/496\">His Girl Friday<\/a><\/em>) gleefully reveals that he&#8217;s having an affair with perfume salesman Joan Crawford (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5532\">Johnny Guitar<\/a><\/em>)&#8230; but Norma gets him back in the end, after Joan doesn&#8217;t work out.  So essentially he goes on a two-year affair, then all is forgiven (an extra divorce\/marriage\/divorce thrown in to please the censors).<\/p>\n<p>After leaving her man, Norma teams up with Joan Fontaine (<em>Rebecca<\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/228\">Letter from an Unknown Woman<\/a><\/em>), Paulette Goddard (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/104\">Modern Times<\/a><\/em>) and Mary Boland (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/614\">Ruggles of Red Gap<\/a><\/em>) in Reno.  Crawford steals another man, this time from Countess Mary Boland, who reveals that his fortune&#8217;s actually hers, so her man and Crawford can go be broke together.<\/p>\n<p>Features a weird full-color fashion show in the middle of the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie with only women in it &#8211; a feat unmatched until the upcoming Ghostbusters remake! Norma Shearer (love interest of He Who Gets Slapped) ends up divorcing her husband after super-gossip Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday) gleefully reveals that he&#8217;s having an affair with perfume salesman Joan Crawford (Johnny Guitar)&#8230; but Norma gets him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1510,154,1931,1932,1930,1929],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-divorce","tag-george-cukor","tag-joan-crawford","tag-joan-fontaine","tag-norma-shearer","tag-rosalind-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}