The Gorgeous Hussy
First screened in September 2006 / Most recently screened in July 2015
Director: Clarence Brown. Cast: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone, Beulah Bondi, James Stewart, Sidney Toler, Alison Skipworth, Louis Calhern, Gene Lockhart, Melville Cooper. Screenplay: Ainsworth Morgan and Stephen Morehouse Avery (based on the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams). Twitter Capsule:
Joan Crawford takes on the states' rights crowd! Patently absurd, but well-photographed and plummily enjoyable.
VOR:③
Nobody would make this particular brand of historical fiction today. Few approached it even in the 1930s with the production values you see here. Still, it's minor and nutty.
