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Female (1933)

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Release Date: Oct 11, 1933 Wide

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Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed, hardboiled business woman making dozens of important decisions a day. In her private life, however, she is passionate and bold in her pursuit of male companionship, which she frequently finds among the ranks of her own employees and executives; the problem is that these men can't abide the fact that back at work, she's all business again; and she keeps having to get their

Unrated, 1 hr.

Drama, Romance, Classics, Comedy

Directed By: Michael Curtiz

Written By: Gene Markey, Kathryn Scola, William A. Wellman

In Theaters: Oct 11, 1933 Wide

On DVD: Mar 17, 1993

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

March 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

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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.

May 28, 2003 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You

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Matt Bailey

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A woman runs a factory after her father's death, which was highly unusual for the 30s. She treats men the way men treat women, which to her means with little respect and only to get what she wants from them. That part of the movie was interesting, but then she falls in love and the movie ends in a predictable manner.

October 27, 2010

AJ Verser

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"female" is directed by michael curtiz in his early days in warner bro. before he thrives at errol flynn swashbucklers. it's casted with ruth chatteton and george brent as the leads, and it's a story about a businesswoman's convert to her femininity by a dashing masculine hunk with conventional maschismo. the flick is

April 11, 2008