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...There's a word for you," says Joan Crawford to Norma Shearer after losing a bitter battle to vamp the latter's spouse, "but they only use it in kennels." This briefly is the tenor of "The Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...
...Women (Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell; TIME, Sept...
...Women (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) contains no less than 135 of them, of all ages, shapes, sizes and stages of neurotic disintegration, and the shadow of one man. The man is Stephen Haines. The most important women are his wife Mary (Norma Shearer), her cattish friend Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell), who makes sure that Mary knows about Stephen's carrying on with a perfume salesgirl, and the girl, Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). Mary's consequent trip to Reno introduces her to many another specimen of her sex, notably a fat U. S. countess (Mary Boland) with a crush...
...This device worked well recently for Warners', when George Raft and James Cagney were inaccurately rumored to be at each others throats while making Each Dawn I Die, and similar apocryphal stories were circulated about Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins during production of The Old Maid. Prima Donna Shearer, for purely professional reasons, saw to it that she was billed above rival Prima Donna Crawford, stipulated that her name should be advertised in type half as large as the title and twice as large as that of Lesser Luminary Russell. But if this precaution stirred any bad blood...
...spend $42,500,000 on 52 pictures, another $2,500,000 to advertise them. Headliners: Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here (shelved in 1936); The Wizard of Oz in Technicolor; Northwest Passage with Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy and Robert Taylor; Quo Vadis?; The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford. M-G-M will also release Producer David O. Selznick's Gone With the Wind. Biggest M-G-M questionmark is fox-faced Hedy Lamarr, who after seven months of grooming at M-G-M was borrowed by Producer Walter Wanger and made an overnight sensation...