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The Women (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
🏳️🌈 George Cukor's classic features an all-female cast, explicitly incorporating a prominent queer layer through the tomboyish/lesbian-coded writer character, Nancy Blake, alongside highly stylized female bonding dynamics.
Cast

Norma Shearer Mary Haines

Joan Crawford Crystal Allen

Rosalind Russell Sylvia Fowler

Mary Boland The Countess De Lave

Paulette Goddard Miriam Aarons

Joan Fontaine Peggy Day

Lucile Watson Mrs. Morehead

Phyllis Povah Edith Potter

Virginia Weidler Little Mary

Marjorie Main Lucy

Virginia Grey Pat

Ruth Hussey Miss Wattson

Muriel Hutchison Jane

Hedda Hopper Dolly Dupuyster

Florence Nash Nancy Blake

Cora Witherspoon Mrs. Van Adams

Ann Morriss Exercise Instructress

Dennie Moore Olga
Mary Cecil Maggie

Mary Beth Hughes Miss Trimmerback
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