When Ladies Meet (1941 film)

Infobox Film
name = When Ladies Meet


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caption = Original theatrical poster
director = Robert Z. Leonard
producer = Orville O. Dull
Robert Z. Leonard
writer = Play:
Rachel Crothers
Screenplay:
S.K. Lauren
Anita Loos
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starring = Joan Crawford
Robert Taylor
Greer Garson
Herbert Marshall
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distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = flagicon|USA 29 August, 1941
runtime = 105 min.
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:54145
imdb_id = 0034386

"When Ladies Meet" (1941) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Greer Garson, and Herbert Marshall in a story about a novelist in love with her publisher. The screenplay by S.K. Lauren and Anita Loos was based upon a 1932 play by Rachel Crothers. The film was directed by Robert Z. Leonard and produced by Orville O. Dull and Robert Z. Leonard. The film was nominated for an Academy Award.

Plot and cast

Mary Howard (Crawford) is a novelist with advanced ideas about love and marriage, and is in love with her publisher, Rogers Woodruff (Marshall). She decides the only logical thing to do is to lure him away from his wife and marry him. Mary's fun-loving, patient friend, Jimmy Lee (Taylor) is convinced he's the right man for her and pursues her. He sees through her rationalizations and wrong-thinking and decides to throw Mary and Woodruff's wife Claire (Garson) together at the house of a friend (Spring Byington). The two women do not know each other but in their chats Mary appreciates and respects Claire's maturity and wisdom. When she learns Woodruff is a philandering womanizer of long standing, she realizes she cannot love him and welcomes the attentions of Jimmy. Cast includes Rafael Strom, Florence Shirley, Max Willenz, Mona Barrie, and Leslie Francis.

Reception

Howard Barnes in the "New York Herald Tribune" wrote, "Even when [Crawford] is wearing spectacles, she is not particularly convincing in the part." [Quirk, Lawrence J.. "The Films of Joan Crawford". The Citadel Press, 1968.]

Awards and nominations

The film earned an Academy Award nomination for art directors Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell.

ee also

* Joan Crawford filmography

References