The Women

About The Women

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

The Women is a 1939 comedy film directed by George Cukor. Norma Shearer appears as Mary Haines, Joan Crawford as Crystal Allen, Rosalind Russell as Sylvia Fowler, and Mary Boland as The Countess De Lave.

At 133 minutes long, it arrived in September 1939. Written by Anita Loos and Donald Ogden Stewart. The story is adapted from a stage production.

Members will find campy, divorce, gold digger, and gossip in it. In the United States it streams on TCM. It scores 7.2 out of 10 from 184 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

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