Illeana Douglas - Book Launch and Conversation
Feuds! Fights! and Five Letter Females! The Women.
Actress Illeana Douglas and pal, NPR’s Colin McEnroe summon their inner bitchiness, to celebrate female empowerment circa 1939 to answer the question: In the battle of the sexes do women still have the upper hand?
Ticket price includes a signed copy of Illeana Douglas’s new book, Jungle Red! The Making of MGM’s The Women, published by Lyons Press, a local book publisher in Essex, CT.
*Join us for a screening of "The Women" on Tuesday September 15 at 1pm. Click HERE to purchase tickets. (This is a separate purchase from the 7pm book launch event.)
Join actress, author, and film historian Illeana Douglas for a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at one of Hollywood’s sharpest, most stylish, and most deliciously wicked classics: MGM’s The Women.
The year 1939 produced such classics as Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz. No less critically acclaimed was The Women. With its sophisticated direction by George Cukor, lavish fashions by Adrian, and all-star female cast led by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, not a single male appeared, proving women didn’t need men to rule the box office. In Jungle Red!, Douglas restores this “largely forgotten masterpiece” to its rightful place in Hollywood history. With her signature wit, passion, and deep love of classic film, she reveals the combustible drama behind the camera with rival screenwriters, clashing stars, George Cukor’s comeback bid, and gossip-column fireworks as fierce as anything in the finished film, which resulted in the most groundbreaking film ever made about women…by a man!
Filled with never-before-seen photographs, memos, and script notes, Jungle Red! is a sparkling celebration of Hollywood glamour, female rivalry, creative ambition, and the enduring legacy of The Women—a film whose influence can still be seen in everything from Sex and the City to The Real Housewives.
It’s time to fall in love with The Women all over again.
Actress Illeana Douglas and pal, NPR’s Colin McEnroe summon their inner bitchiness, to celebrate female empowerment circa 1939 to answer the question: In the battle of the sexes do women still have the upper hand?
Ticket price includes a signed copy of Illeana Douglas’s new book, Jungle Red! The Making of MGM’s The Women, published by Lyons Press, a local book publisher in Essex, CT.
*Join us for a screening of "The Women" on Tuesday September 15 at 1pm. Click HERE to purchase tickets. (This is a separate purchase from the 7pm book launch event.)
Join actress, author, and film historian Illeana Douglas for a dazzling behind-the-scenes look at one of Hollywood’s sharpest, most stylish, and most deliciously wicked classics: MGM’s The Women.
The year 1939 produced such classics as Gone With The Wind and The Wizard of Oz. No less critically acclaimed was The Women. With its sophisticated direction by George Cukor, lavish fashions by Adrian, and all-star female cast led by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, not a single male appeared, proving women didn’t need men to rule the box office. In Jungle Red!, Douglas restores this “largely forgotten masterpiece” to its rightful place in Hollywood history. With her signature wit, passion, and deep love of classic film, she reveals the combustible drama behind the camera with rival screenwriters, clashing stars, George Cukor’s comeback bid, and gossip-column fireworks as fierce as anything in the finished film, which resulted in the most groundbreaking film ever made about women…by a man!
Filled with never-before-seen photographs, memos, and script notes, Jungle Red! is a sparkling celebration of Hollywood glamour, female rivalry, creative ambition, and the enduring legacy of The Women—a film whose influence can still be seen in everything from Sex and the City to The Real Housewives.
It’s time to fall in love with The Women all over again.
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The Kate - Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St,Old Saybrook, Connecticut, United States
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