Classics with Jeffrey Kash: The Women

TICKETS Based on Clare Boothe Luce’s 1936 play of the same name, this film features only women in all 130 speaking roles. It is a scathing look at Manhattan’s high-society women and the scores of women who work for them. We follow them through their power struggles and their exquisite boredom, and for some to their divorces. From the New York Times review: “Miss Boothe…has dipped her pen in venom… And, instead of gasping and clutching at their throats, the women—bless ’em—have downed it without blinking, have gone on a glorious cat-clawing rampage and have turned in one of the merriest pictures of the season. (George Cukor, 1939, USA, 2:13, NR)