A Woman Rebels
A Victorian feminist has an illegitimate baby.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 20, 2009
- Originally Released: 1936
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Elizabeth Allan, Donald Crisp & Doris Dudley | |
Directed by | Mark Sandrich | |
Screenwriting by | Anthony Veiller & Ernest Vajda | |
Composition by | Roy Webb | |
Director of Photography: | Robert De Grasse |
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A Woman Rebels seemed a long sad struggle, not only for the people on the screen but for those in the audience.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
As women, the first thing of importance is to be content to be inferior to men. Rubbish, young Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn) thinks, embarking on an independent life no proper Victorian would approve of, a life that includes love affairs, a child born out of wedlock, a career and national fame.
Product Description:
Based on a novel by Netta Syrett, A WOMAN REBELS is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in life is to defy the restrictive and often hypocritical conventions of Victorian England. Refusing to conform to the status quo, Pamela lives alone, reads, and says whatever she wishes, and even -- horrors! -- takes a job. Her romantic dalliance with young Gerald (Van Heflin, in his film debut) results in an illegitimate daughter (Doris Dudley), whom Pamela raises as her niece until she decides it's high time to tell the truth in all matters. Faithful suitor Thomas Lane (Herbert Marshall) offers to make an "honest woman" of her, but Pamela refuses until she can stand on her own two feet financially. Fiercely independent to the last, she becomes the crusading editor of a pioneering pro-feminist magazine and an early champion of Women's Suffrage. It was hoped by RKO Radio that THE WOMAN REBELS would restore the popularity of Katharine Hepburn, which thanks to a series of expensive failures had been flagging for the past two years. Though the film turned out to be a box-office loser (it posted a $220,000 deficit), in retrospect it can be regarded as an artistic triumph -- and a remarkably timely one at that.
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- UPC: 883316140284
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