Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The women / M-G-M presents ; screenplay by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin ; produced by Hunt Stromberg ; directed by George Cukor ; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, black and white with color sequence ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file Blu-ray 1080p

Summary:

Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Female friendship -- Drama.

Gossip -- Drama.

Divorce -- Nevada -- Reno -- Drama.

Women -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Film adaptations.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Loos, Anita, 1893-1981, screenwriter.

Murfin, Jane, 1892-1955, screenwriter.

Stromberg, Hunt, 1894-1968, film producer.

Cukor, George, 1899-1983, film director.

Russell, Rosalind, actor.

Crawford, Joan, 1908-1977, actor.

Shearer, Norma, 1902-1983, actor.

Fontaine, Joan, 1917-2013, actor.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Luce, Clare Boothe, 1903-1987. Women.

Boland, Mary, 1880-1965, actor.

Goddard, Paulette, 1911-1990, actor.

Povah, Phyllis. actor.

Weidler, Virginia, 1926-1968, actor.

Watson, Lucile, 1879-1962, actor.

Marsh, Oliver T., 1893-1941.

Ward, Edward, 1896-1971.

Snell, David, 1897-1967.

Gibbons, Cedric, 1895-1960.

Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.

Turner Entertainment Co.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Women (Motion picture : 1939)

Notes:

Title from disc surface.

Based on the play, The women, by Clare Boothe Luce.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Vintage special features: "One mother's family" cartoon; documentaries "Another romance of celluloid: from the ends of the earth" and "Another romance of celluloid: Hollywood: style center of the world"; alternate black-and-white fashion show sequence with different footage; scoring session music cues; theatrical trailers of this and its 1956 musical remake "The opposite sex".

Directors of photography, Oliver T. Marsh and Joseph Ruttenberg ; film edited by Robert J. Kern ; music scored by Edward Ward.

Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Phyllis Povah, Joan Fontaine, Virginia Weidler, Lucile Watson.

Blu-ray; DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 (English); Dolby Digital 1.0 (Spanish); requires Blu-ray player.

Audio in English or Spanish; subtitles in French and Spanish; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

ISBN:

9786315372049 : BRHD

631537204X : BRHD

Publisher Number:

1000449626

Other Number:

872661493

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

654918

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

BLU MOVIE Women