An Evening with Author Illeana Douglas

Illeana Douglas is best known as a character actress in movies such as Goodfellas, To Die For, and Ghost World. She is also an accomplished writer/director and has parlayed her cinematic lineage (as the granddaughter of Melvyn Douglas (Hud, Being There)) and her lifelong love of classic film into a successful additional career as a podcaster, screening host, and author. We are excited to welcome Illeana to The Brattle to present a screening of 1939’s THE WOMEN, the subject of her latest book, Jungle Red!: The Making of MGM’s The Women.

From the salons of Manhattan to a ‘divorce ranch’ in Reno, THE WOMEN follows the romantically interwoven lives of a set of elite New York women—without a man in sight. At the center is Mary (Shearer) a happily married woman who soon discovers that her husband is having an affair with a perfume counter chippy (Crawford). One of the cattiest, sharpest satires in film history.

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