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Writers:
Owen Davis (play)
Clements Ripley (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 March 1938 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Fearless Feminine Creature with a heart full of love ! more
Plot:
A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiance due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(5 articles)
News: Katy Manning in Me & Jezebel
(From Kasterborous. 17 March 2009, 2:14 PM, PDT)
No joke! Could Bette Davis have won an Emmy as best TV comedy actress?
(From Gold Derby. 8 March 2009, 9:13 AM, PDT)
User Comments:
Gone with the Jezebel more (63 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Bette Davis | ... | Julie | |
| Henry Fonda | ... | Preston Dillard | |
| George Brent | ... | Buck Cantrell | |
| Margaret Lindsay | ... | Amy | |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Dr. Livingstone | |
| Fay Bainter | ... | Aunt Belle | |
| Richard Cromwell | ... | Ted | |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | General Bogardus | |
| Spring Byington | ... | Mrs. Kendrick | |
| John Litel | ... | Jean La Cour | |
| Gordon Oliver | ... | Dick Allen | |
| Janet Shaw | ... | Molly Allen | |
| Theresa Harris | ... | Zette | |
| Margaret Early | ... | Stephanie Kendrick | |
| Irving Pichel | ... | Huger |
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Runtime:
104 min (TCM print)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:PG | USA:TV-PG | Sweden:15 | Argentina:16 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #3915)
Filming Locations:
Iverson Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA more
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Owen Davis's play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 19 December 1933 and closed in January 1934 after 32 performances. The opening night cast included Miriam Hopkins as Julie, Joseph Cotten, Owen Davis Jr. (the writer's son), Cora Witherspoon and Lew Payton (who is also in the film). more
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Continuity: Early in the film, Preston storms up to Julie's bedroom and knocks hard on her door several times with his cane. The head of the cane seemingly leaves numerous dents in the wood. When Julie finally opens the door (inward into the bedroom), the dents have disappeared. more
Quotes:
Buck Cantrell: I like my convictions undiluted, just like my bourbon. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Howard Hughes: His Women and His Movies (2000) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Pretty Quadroon more
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It is 1850's New Orleans, and Julie Marsten (Davis), a head-strong young woman who doesn't find it the least improper to be late for her own engagement party because she feels like riding her horse instead, is getting married to Preston Dillard (Fonda). Unfortunately, Preston isn't at the party because he is hammering out business at his family's bank; when they are married, he and Julie will be moving north, an almost sacrilegious action during this time. Buck Cantrell (George Brent) is Julie's former beau, who remains a family friend and still defends Julie's honor. One day, when Preston doesn't drop everything to attend a dress fitting for Julie that he had originally promised to attend, she defiantly insists that she purchase a red dress, breaking the white dress only tradition for the ball they were attending. Despite the protestations of everyone she knows, including Preston, she wears the dress to the ball, causing her to be ostracized and the official break up of her engagement to Preston when he realizes that he cannot deal with her headstrong attitude. He leaves for the north without her, and comes back a year later with a surprise, and sees that Yellow Fever has gripped New Orleans, a peril that threatens everyone.
"Jezebel" is a tale of defiance, love and redemption. Davis plays her role so well that it is hard to determine whether you want to support her or marginalize her as a spoiled brat. I think that even when the film was made, (1938) the lines were still blurred as to how many freedoms and how much free-thinking should be afforded to women. It is easy for me to say that Julie's red dress was much ado about nothing, but then again, this is the millennium, when nothing is overtly shocking anymore. The mere fact that I thought so much about a classic film (which generally has throwaway plots) is a true testament to Davis' performance and the writing, under William Wyler's direction. "Jezebel" is essentially "Gone with the Wind" without the budget or the color, and was made the year before that film was released. Most of the characters are fairly throwaway, but the subject is Julie, and her development is amazing and very believable, despite the melodramatic genre. This is a film that most classic film lovers have seen, I'm sure (I am apparently a late bloomer in regard to this film) but if you are one and you haven't seen it, or are a Bette Davis fan, see this movie. Most of her late 30's to 1950 films are so spectacular just because of her performance (if the rest is good, it's gravy), and this is one of her best known performances. 7/10 --Shelly