Director: George Cukor

Writers: Anita Loos; Jane Murfin

From a play by: Clare Boothe Luce

Musical Score: Edward Ward; David Snell

Producer: Hunt Stromberg

Keywords: Romantic Comedy

In a group of society women of 1930s New York, Norma Shearer finds that her husband has left her for Joan Crawford, a sales clerk working in a department store. Great performances from everyone in this adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's Broadway play. Often overlooked in the flood of great movies released in 1939. Entered 2007 into the National Film Registry.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mary Boland	Actor	28-Jan-1880	23-Jun-1965	Ruggles of Red Gap
Joan Crawford	Actor	23-Mar-1905	10-May-1977	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Joan Fontaine	Actor	22-Oct-1917	15-Dec-2013	Suspicion
Paulette Goddard	Actor	3-Jun-1910	23-Apr-1990	Reap the Wild Wind
Virginia Grey	Actor	22-Mar-1917	31-Jul-2004	Hullabaloo
Hedda Hopper	Actor	2-May-1885	1-Feb-1966	Queen of the Quickies
Mary Beth Hughes	Actor	13-Nov-1919	27-Aug-1995	The Ox-Bow Incident
Ruth Hussey	Actor	30-Oct-1911	19-Apr-2005	The Philadelphia Story
Marjorie Main	Actor	24-Feb-1890	10-Apr-1975	Ma and Pa Kettle
Rosalind Russell	Actor	4-Jun-1907	28-Nov-1976	Auntie Mame
Norma Shearer	Actor	10-Aug-1902	12-Jun-1983	The Divorcee
Lucile Watson	Actor	27-May-1879	24-Jun-1962	Watch on the Rhine
Virginia Weidler	Actor	21-Mar-1927	1-Jul-1968	The Philadelphia Story
Cora Witherspoon	Actor	5-Jan-1890	17-Nov-1957	The Bank Dick

CAST

Norma Shearer	...   Mrs. Stephen Haines (Mary)
Joan Crawford	...   Crystal Allen
Rosalind Russell	...   Mrs. Howard Fowler (Sylvia)
with
Mary Boland	...   The Countess De Lave (Flora)
Paulette Goddard	...   Miriam Aarons
Phyllis Povah	...   Mrs. Phelps Potter (Edith)
Joan Fontaine	...   Mrs. John Day (Peggy)
Virginia Weidler	...   Little Mary
Lucile Watson	...   Mrs. Morehead
Marjorie Main	...   Lucy
and
Virginia Grey	...   Pat
Ruth Hussey	...   Miss Watts
Muriel Hutchison	...   Jane
Hedda Hopper	...   Dolly DuPuyster
Florence Nash	...   Nancy Blake
Cora Witherspoon	...   Mrs. Van Adams
Ann Morriss	...   Instructress
Dennie Moore	...   Olga
Mary Cecil	...   Maggie
Mary Beth Hughes	...   Miss Trimmerback

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