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- The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) “You claim that I am sent by the Devil. It’s not true. To make me suffer, the Devil has sent you… and you… and you… and you.”
- Gone With The Wind (1939) “As God as my witness they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again.”
- The Women (1939) “I’ve had two years to grow claws mother. Jungle red.” This is a wonderful film that everyone should watch. The 2008 remake is just terrible and was always going to be because this film is so perfectly of its time.
- His Girl Friday (1940) “I wouldn’t cover the burning of Rome for you if they were just lighting it up!” The second film in our Rosalind Russell trilogy is His Girl Friday.
The Women is a 2008 American comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Diane English and starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Carrie Fisher, Cloris Leachman, Debi Mazar, Bette Midler, and Candice Bergen.
- Mildred Pierce
- The Little Foxes
- The African Queen
- I'm No Angel
- His Girl Friday
- Queen Christina
- La Souriante Madame Beudet
- The Thin Man
- 'All About Eve'
Mildred Pierce was one of the first films to showcase an ambitious career woman as a central character: in this flick, Joan Crawford, as the mother who pushes incredibly hard and sacrifices virtually everything for her nasty little spoilt daughter. Mildred isn't unflawed — but she's powerful, and intent on getting what she deserves. Stream here.
This film was actually pretty remarkable for the time, because it featured a Southern aristocratic belle who wasn't a brat or markedly hopeless. Instead, Regina, played by the awesome Bette Davis, is fighting her brothers for her well-deserved share of their inheritance. Regina inevitably goes too far in her pursuit of justice, but her rage against...
Now mostly famous for pairing Katharine Hepburn with a spectacularly grumpy Humphrey Bogart, this film should be better known for the fact that Hepburn's character drives the whole thing: she and Bogart get stranded in a German-controlled bit of Africa at the outbreak of WWI, and she hatches a plan to convert their knackered boat into a gunboat and...
Oh, Mae West, how we love you. West was one of the first female comedians to get the big bucks and be frank about her sexuality.I'm No Angel, which she also wrote, features her in a lot of romantic entanglements (at least five) as a burlesque dancer, and while she does eventually find true love, she does it with some feminist ass-kicking. She sues ...
This screwball comedy from Howard Hawks looks pretty normal on the surface — Cary Grant uses every trick in the book to lure his best worker and ex-wife, Rosalind Russell, back to his — but it's actually pretty subversive. Rosalind, as Hildy, is clearly the brains of the operation, and she and Grant match wits and ambition all the way to the inevit...
Greta Garbo stars as the gender-bending, completely non-compromising Queen Christina of Sweden, who was renowned for dressing in men's clothes in an attempt to be taken seriously in the patriarchal environment of the Swedish court. In real life, Christina's story was more interesting — she abdicated her throne because she didn't want to marry anybo...
This surrealist short is regarded as the first truly feminist film: a woman imagines the death of her stupid, humiliating husband, before a twist keeps her imprisoned in the marriage. It's very much from her point of view, and depicts her as intelligent and fully formed. It's both very silly and very sad.
The Thin Man movies, based on the novels of Dashiell Hammett, are technically all about Nick Charles' (William Powell) pursuits of criminals and murderers, but it's his marriage to Nora (Myrna Loy)that got the headlines. And deservedly so: Nora, based on Hammett's own partner Lillian Hellmann, is an equal, trades wisecracks at every opportunity, an...
If you see one film on this list, make it this one. While the terrifying Eve, who manipulates everybody to supplant actress Bette Davis and get all her fame and roles, is a bit sociopathic, it's the serious Davis who carries the picture: she's a fully rounded, highly intelligent, very sad character with huge flaws and high ambitions. That's what fe...
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Women in film refers to the role and representation of women in the filmmaking industry. It encompasses their participation as directors, producers, writers, actresses, and other key positions within cinema.
Aug 4, 2016 · It seems that many (often pejorative) terms that are typically used to refer to women refer themselves to cats: When a woman insults people for petty reasons, she's described as catty, whereas a man who exhibits the same behavior would most likely not be described that way.
Nov 15, 2012 · The term "catty" is a sexually biased way of describing an unhealthy way women act on an otherwise healthy feeling of competitiveness. Think of the times we say things we regret about other...
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Jun 23, 2016 · There’s no penalty for women mentoring women — and when they do, they’re more likely to be seen by their protégés as role models. They share advice about how to break glass ceilings and ...
