Female (1933)


Ruth Chatterton tears up the screen in this fast-paced, lusty comedy. Alison Drake is an automobile magnate, a hard-nosed, hardboiled business woman making dozens of important decisions a day.

In her private life, however, she is passionate and bold in her pursuit of male companionship, which she frequently finds among the ranks of her own employees and executives; the problem is that these men can't abide the fact that back at work, she's all business again; and she keeps having to get their long, mopey faces out of her presence by transferring them elsewhere.

Then she meets Jim Thorne (George Brent), a gifted engineer who is attracted to Drake but isn't a callow, cowtowing yes-man, and isn't awed by her millions. After a few awkward encounters, they find a balance in their lives together, or so she thinks, until he proposes marriage -- she rejects him and he leaves.

Alison decides to sacrifice everything to get him back, which leads to a long-distance chase across the country (and a reminder of what it was like driving cross-country before the interstate highway system existed) and a reconciliation.

Director: Michael Curtiz, William A. Wellman
Producer(s): Robert Presnell Sr.
Cast: Gavin Gordon, Spencer Charters, Ruth Donnelly, George Brent, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Douglas Dumbrille, Charles Wilson, Lois Wilson, Robert Warwick, Ruth Chatterton, Philip Reed, Johnny Brown, Rafaela Ottiano, Kenneth Thomson, Walter Walker, Edward Cooper
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