Female

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Female

1933,

1h 5m,

Comedy/

Drama

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83%

6 Reviews

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55%

250+ Ratings

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83%

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6 Reviews

55%

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250+ Ratings

The highly motivated owner of a car company, Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton), puts up a businesslike facade, but she frequently cuts loose by casually dating men both in her employ and otherwise. When she tires of spending time with opportunistic guys, however, she happens to meet Jim Thorne (George Brent), one of her own engineers, and is smitten. While Jim initially turns away Alison's advances, he eventually falls for her, but can their burgeoning romance work in the long run?

Don Q.

Cine-Mundial

Oct 8, 2020

[Ruth Chatteron] is still a powerful charming woman and, above all, a masterful actress. [Full review in Spanish]

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Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

May 17, 2017

Exuberant romantic drama, about a powerful female business woman and her romances.

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Jun 23, 2014

3/4

The Chatterton character's appetite for sex is large: She cherry-picks the men in her factory and invites them to her spectacular home for business meetings that turn into seductions. When she's ready, she tosses a pillow onto a fur rug on the floor.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Mar 6, 2008

B

This slick romantic comedy offers 'the before its time sophisticated concept' that a woman can run a large company.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jun 30, 2005

2/5

Matt Bailey

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

May 28, 2003

Female is more than just a museum piece from that short era after the introduction of sound and before the enforcement of the Hays Code; it's a strangely involving, patently absurd, wildly entertaining movie.

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Michael Curtiz

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William Dieterle

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William A. Wellman

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Ruth Chatterton

Alison Drake

George Brent

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Synopsis

The highly motivated owner of a car company, Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton), puts up a businesslike facade, but she frequently cuts loose by casually dating men both in her employ and otherwise. When she tires of spending time with opportunistic guys, however, she happens to meet Jim Thorne (George Brent), one of her own engineers, and is smitten. While Jim initially turns away Alison's advances, he eventually falls for her, but can their burgeoning romance work in the long run?

Director: Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman
Producer: Robert Presnell Sr.
Screenwriter: Donald Henderson Clarke, Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola
Distributor: Warner Bros., First National Pictures Inc., MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc.
Production Co: First National Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 11, 1933, Original
Runtime: 1h 5m

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