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Female

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Movie Info

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?

Genre:

drama, comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman
Producer:

Robert Presnell Sr.
Runtime:

1h 5m
Production Co:

First National Pictures

Cast & Crew

Ruth Chatterton
Alison Drake

George Brent
Jim Thorne

Ruth Donnelly
Miss Frothingham

Philip Reed
Freddie Claybourne (as Phillip Reed)

Johnny Mack Brown
George P. Cooper

Lois Wilson
Harriet Brown

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Critic Reviews for Female

All Critics (5) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (1)

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

May 17, 2017 | Full Review…

Michael E. Grost
Classic Film and Television
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.

June 23, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
This slick romantic comedy offers 'the before its time sophisticated concept' that a woman can run a large company.

March 6, 2008 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
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June 30, 2005 | Rating: 2/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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…

Matt Bailey
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Audience Reviews for Female

Oct 05, 2013

Starts out zesty and modern and is quite entertaining until the cop out ending.

jay n Super Reviewer
Mar 08, 2013

In "Female," Alison Drake(Ruth Chatterton) has her hands full during the day running her father's auto company. But at night she has time to not only get caught up with her old friend Harriet(Lois Wilson) but also to make time with Cooper(Johnny Mack Brown), a new hire. The following day, it is back to business, putting her feet down in opposition to any feelings he might have for her, while she banishes a former lover to Montreal(Oh no! Not that! Anything but that!) before requesting some sensible female additions to the secretarial pool. "Female" is a fast paced drama that has a lot of fun with its reversal of the gender roles of the time the movie was made. The irony is that the movie also wraps up much too quickly but it is still entertaining as far as it goes. But, oh, that poor pig!

Walter M Super Reviewer
Oct 27, 2010

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.

Aj V Super Reviewer
Feb 05, 2009

Ruth Chatterton is a trail blazing feminist with the hots for George Brent. An atypical romance that becomes decidedly typical as it progresses.

Randy T Super Reviewer