The women

Author

Norma Shearer

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Performers

Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson.

Publication Information

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2002.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

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

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital mono.

Based on the play "The Women" by Clare Boothe.

Videodisc release of the 1939 motion picture.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated.

In English with optional French language soundtrack ; optional subtitles in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Special features include: Romance on celluloid documentaries: From the ends of the earth and 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) ; interactive menus ; scene access.

Presented in a standard format, preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.