1930s
Women's Studies Videos at Lilly Library: A Selected Videography
- The Devil is a Woman (1935)
- VC 10884
At the turn of the century, in the port town of Seville, it's carnival week, and the blood of enemies and the passions of lovers run hot. But, none so much as those of a young revolutionary, his old friend, and the new woman who comes between them both. - The Gay Divorcee (1934)
- VC 11124
Musical comedy of bedroom confusions and misunderstandings that result when an American dancer begins pursuing a woman who, in turn, is trying to invent technical grounds for divorce from her husband. - Libeled Lady (1936)
- DVD 4307
It all starts when society diva Myrna Loy slaps newsman Spencer Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancée Jean Harlow and down-on-his luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all. - She (1935)
- DVD 4102
Randolph Scott leads an expedition into the uncharted arctic in search of a mythical fountain of youth. Stranded in the frigid wilderness, Leo and his companions (Nigel Bruce and Helen Mack) stumble onto a colony of ferocious cave dwellers, guardians of Kor, a fantastic subterranean lost kingdom wherein lies the secret to eternal life. - She Done Him Wrong (1933)
- VC 8032
Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of "Frankie and Johnnie." - Sisters of the Gion (1936)
- VC 10820
Story about a bold and ambitious younger sister who steals her older sister's lover. - The Women (1939)
- DVD 4402
Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
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