The Women
1939, NR, 133 min.
Directed by George Cukor, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Marjorie Main, Lucile Watson, Butterfly McQueen.

This Hollywood bitchfest is an enduring favorite that features a constellation of top female stars (in an exclusively female cast) dishing the dirt on each other like there’s no tomorrow. Anita Loos scripted from Clare Boothe Luce’s famous play, and George Cukor presides over it all with an even hand.

This article appears in June 21 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.