There are almost too many similarities between these two films to list, but here goes: Both were produced and released by MGM, both were made in the fifties, both were musicals, and both feature women who performed with the Ziegfield Follies…
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There are almost too many similarities between these two films to list, but here goes: Both were produced and released by MGM, both were made in the fifties, both were musicals, and both feature women who performed with the Ziegfield Follies…
Eddie Mannix is a complicated historical figure who becomes increasingly interesting as you learn more about his life. Several films have tried to encapsulate and explain his role with MGM, as a general manager and comptroller, but it’s difficult. To come out and say what he did, and to who, and why, is still tricky business, even if his reign ended some fifty years ago with his 1963 death.
The Women was a 1936 play written by Clara Boothe Luce that ran for 657 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York. Besides being known as a comedy of manners, the play utilized an all-important and rare gimmick: the entire cast, down to the background players, animals, and set decoration, only featured women.
