I need a third comedy film starring all or mostly women for a project. I have Stage Door and The Women (original). Are there any others from the same or similar period?
shareThe Greeks Had a Word for Them, although it's from several years earlier (1932).
shareNot a comedy, but a tv movie, Friendships, Secrets and Lies, about one of six sorority sisters who had an abortion and the baby's skeleton is found when the house is torn down, had an all female cast.
Tina Louise, Loretta Swit, Stella stevens, Cathryn Damon, Paula Prentiss, Shelley Fabares and Sondra Locke starred.
I believe it to be one of a kind, actually. Even the 2 remakes can't touch this one. If it doesn't have to be an older movie I think "Waiting to Exhale" has a strong female cast who are dealing with familiar family problems.
share"The Doughgirls", 1944, based upon another Broadway play, has three former chorus girls meeting up in Washington D.C. during a time when it was hard to find a hotel. They bring on a Russian sergeant (played with gusto by Eve Arden) and also include a vindictive soon to be ex-wife (Irene Manning) and a rather dizzy society matron. The three old friends are Jane Wyman (playing against type as a dippy dame), Ann Sheridan (every inch the tough broad) and the less defined Alexis Smith who does at least let loose in one scene with a hysterical Brooklyn accent. It is dated plot-wise, but very funny!
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