The Women Articles

Paulette Goddard, Modern Times Paulette Goddard on TCM Part I: MODERN TIMES, REAP THE WILD WIND I've never watched Alexander Korda's British-made An Ideal Husband, a 1948 adaptation (by Lajos Biro) of Oscar Wilde's play, but it should be at least worth a look. The respectable cast includes Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, C. Aubrey Smith, Hugh Williams, Constance Collier, and Glynis Johns. George Cukor's film [...]

Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right) Mike LaSalle on Norma Shearer: "Shearer was at her best in the [...]

According to Variety, Clare Boothe Luce's mordant comedy The Women may be headed for the big screen for the third time in 65 years. With New Line as the potential distributor, the new remake would be the feature-film debut — as writer-director — of Diane English, best known as the creator and writer of the TV series Murphy Brown. Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Sandra Bullock, [...]