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| A WOMAN REBELS (1936) |
An RKO Radio Picture
B&W, 88 minutes
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CAST
Pamela Thistlewaite: Katharine Hepburn
Thomas Lane: Herbert Marshall
Flora Thistlewaite: Elizabeth Allan
Judge Thistlewaite: Donald Crisp
Young Flora: Doris Dudley
Alan: David Manners
Betty Bumble: Lucile Watson
Gerald: Van Heflin
Piper: Eily Malyon
Aunt Serena: Margaret Seddon
Young Girl: Molly Lamont
Mr. White: Lionel Pape
Lady Gaythorne: Constance Lupino
Lady Rinlake: Lillian Kemble-Cooper
Signor Grassi: Nick Thompson
Signora Grassi: Inez Palange
Italian Boy: Tony Romero
Italian Bit: Joe Mack
Flora, Age 10: Marilyn Knowlden
Flora, Age 5: Bonnie June McNamara
Flora, As Infant: Marilyn French
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CREDITS
Director: Mark Sandrich
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Scenarists: Anthony Veiller, Ernest Vajda
Based on the Novel Portrait of a Rebel by: Netta Syrett
Photographer: Robert De Grasse
Art Director: Van Nest Polglase
Associate Art Director: Perry Ferguson
Set Decorator: Darrell Silvera
Editor: Jane Loring
Sound Recorder: George D. Ellis
Musical Score: Roy Webb
Music Recorded by: Clem Portman
Orchestrator: Maurice De Packh
Musical Director: Nathaniel Shilkret
Costumer: Walter Plunkett
Ballroom Dances by: Hermes Pan
Makeup Artist: Mel Burns
Assistant Director: Dewey Starkey
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SYNOPSIS
This is the story of a woman's struggle for emancipation during the Victorian period. Pamela Thistlewaite fights against the strict conventions of the 1870s, a defiance which doesn't prove to be an easy or popular task. However, as a true rebel, she defies her autocratic father, Judge Thistlewaite; has an affair with Gerald, an amorous young man who leaves her with a child born out of wedlock; and refuses to marry Thomas Lane, a faithful suitor.
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CRITIQUES
"Marked by none of the vitality of its predecessors in Katharine Hepburn's Victorian series, A Woman Rebels is saved from complete mediocrity by her well-modulated performance and by the admirable feeling for background and atmosphere implicit in Mark Sandrich's direction."
- Time, 1936
"Arguably Katharine Hepburn's worst picture (most serious rival: Mary of Scotland), and the central issue - the freedom of women - is made to seem tired, dated, and convictionless. This time Hepburn is Pamela Thistlewaite, daughter of an autocratic judge (Donald Crisp). After an affair (with Van Heflin), she has an illegitimate child; though she's the crusading editor of a women's magazine and a campaigner for women's rights, she fibs about the baby. After much suffering, she realizes she's in love with her longtime faithful suitor (Herbert Marshall). Despite what Hepburn goes through in this movie, she looks great and she has something; she does a lot for her more amusing speeches."
- Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
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HOME VIDEO AVAILABILITY
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Lobby card
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Katharine Hepburn
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Herbert Marshall, Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Allan
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Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn
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Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Allan
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Katharine Hepburn
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On the set: Katharine Hepburn
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