#the women
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Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus(1932)
Joan Crawford in The Women(1939)
Mae West in She Done Him Wrong(1933)
Merle Oberon in Wuthering Heights(1939)
Irene Dunne in My Favorite Wife(1940)
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Hey, TCM fans! It’s time to get the jungle red nail polish out for The Women (1939), which is airing at 8 pm ET Sunday, July 11. This classic comedy about a group of friends (well, more like frenemies) who gossip, drink, and shop their way through New York society is as superbly witty and perhaps even more timely than it was in 1939. The all-star all-female cast is exceptional, especially Rosalind Russell as a motor-mouthed busybody and Joan Crawford as a man-eating perfume salesperson.
Here’s the best of the rest of this week, but there’s lots of stuff airing in the daytime, so here’s a link to the full schedule. https://www.tcm.com/schedule-monthly?icid=mainnav7-month-schedule
1. Picnic (1955) at 10:45 pm ET/7:45 pm PT Wednesday, July 7: William Holden is in top form (both physically and in acting) in this drama about a handsome drifter who wreaks havoc on a small town’s Labor Day picnic (I don’t know about y'all, but if BILL HOLDEN showed up at my community’s annual picnic, it would be a whole lot better attended )
2. Viva Las Vegas (1964) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Thursday, July 8: Elvis movies can be a bit of a mixed bag, but his scorching chemistry with the gorgeous Ann-Margret in this Sin City musical makes it worth a watch.
3. Chinatown (1974) at midnight ET/9 pm PT Friday night/Saturday morning: This week’s neo-noir lineup is straight-up amazing. Chinatown remains one of the landmarks of ‘70s cinema, but there’s also Michael Caine in gangster pic Get Carter at 8 pm ET and noir icon Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) at 10 pm ET.
4. Gojira (1954) at 2 am ET/11 pm PT Sunday night/Monday morning: The original Japanese version of Godzilla is both a first-rate monster movie and a haunting examination of the destruction left in Japan after World War II. Gojira is followed by Godzilla Raids Again (1955) at 3:45 am ET.
Irish women living outside of Ireland returning to vote for determining right to abortion/reproductive health/pro-choice.
Photo credit : Alastair Moore (via viperslang)
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I honestly always find the term ‘spinster’ as referring to an elderly, never-married woman as funny because you know what?
Wool was a hugeindustry in Europe in the middle ages. It was hugely in demand, particularly broadcloth, and was a valuable trade good. A great deal of wool was owned by monasteries and landed gentry who owned the land.
And, well, the only way to spin wool into yarn to make broadcloth was by hand.
This was viewed as a feminine occupation, and below the dignity of the monks and male gentry that largely ran the trade.
So what did they do?
They hired women to spin it. And, turns out, this was a stable job that paid very well. Well enough that it was one of the few viable economic options considered ‘respectable’ outside of marriage for a woman. A spinster could earn quite a tidy salary for her art, and maintain full control over her own money, no husband required.
So, naturally, women who had little interest in marriage or men? Grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Of course, most people didn’t get this, because All Women Want Is Husbands, Right?
So when people say ‘spinster’ as in ‘spinster aunt’, they are TRYING to conjure up an image of a little old lady who is lonely and bitter.
But what I HEAR are the smiles and laughter of a million women as they earned their own money in their own homes and controlled their own fortunes and lived life on their own terms, and damn what society expected of them.
style goals: Rosalind Russell in The Women (1939)
She bowed and they followed…
Note:I do realize that to someone this might look like another act of obedience but I think it’s a subtle insinuation on the depart of the director that They have had enough. Rebellion is coming along. She kneeled and They followed Her.
#smellslikerebellion
