What is The Women / The Good Fairy about?

THE WOMEN, 1939, Warner Bros., 133 min. Dir. George Cukor. When Norma Shearer discovers her husband is cheating on her, an all-star parade of MGM leading ladies convenes to gossip and commiserate: Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Marjorie Main, and Joan Fontaine lead the all-female cast. Filmed in black and white, it features a dazzling ten-minute fashion parade filmed in Technicolor, with wonderful gowns by Adrian (THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD) THE GOOD FAIRY, 1935, Universal, 98 min. Dir. William Wyler. Before he became one of the world’s greatest comedy directors, Preston Sturges scripted this gem about a well-meaning but naïve cinema usherette (Margaret Sullavan) who inadvertently spreads chaos. Adapted from Ferenc Molnar’s farce, the comedy follows Sullavan as she juggles men including Herbert Marshall and Frank Morgan, piling up comic misunderstandings along the way.

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What is The Women / The Good Fairy about?: THE WOMEN, 1939, Warner Bros., 133 min. Dir. George Cukor. When Norma Shearer discovers her husband is cheating on her, an all-star parade of MGM leading ladies convenes to gossip and commiserate: Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Marjorie Main, and Joan Fontaine lead the all-female cast. Filmed in black and white, it features a dazzling ten-minute fashion parade filmed in Technicolor, with wonderful gowns by Adrian (THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE GREAT ZIEGFELD)
THE GOOD FAIRY, 1935, Universal, 98 min. Dir. William Wyler. Before he became one of the world’s greatest comedy directors, Preston Sturges scripted this gem about a well-meaning but naïve cinema usherette (Margaret Sullavan) who inadvertently spreads chaos. Adapted from Ferenc Molnar’s farce, the comedy follows Sullavan as she juggles men including Herbert Marshall and Frank Morgan, piling up comic misunderstandings along the way.