“A long time ago I decided to travel the same open road that men travel. So, I treat men exactly the way they’ve always treated women.” — Ruth Chatterton, as Alison Drake, in FEMALE
Chatterton became a chorus girl at 14, a Broadway star at 22, began her film career at 33, and played her last great role—as Walter Huston’s dissatisfied wife in William Wyler’s Dodsworth—at 44.
In FEMALE she’s a high-powered executive in the automobile industry—subordinate to no one, and quite willing to use men for her own amusement—until she meets independent designer George Brent.
This pre-Code talkie is one of seven films Michael Curtiz directed for Warner Bros. in 1933 alone, and is screened as part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive series MICHAEL CURTIZ—A LIFE IN FILM.
An hour before the screening, author Alan K. Rode will sign copies of his book Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film.
FEMALE, followed by THE STRANGE LOVE OF MOLLY LOUVAIN (1932), Saturday, January 6, at 7:30 pm.
BILLY WILDER THEATER, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.
Ruth Chatterton, Female (1933).
