Thirteen Women (1932)

Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to ... See full summary »

Director:

George Archainbaud

Writers:

Tiffany Thayer, Bartlett Cormack (screen play),

Stars:

Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Irene Dunne	...	Laura Stanhope
Ricardo Cortez	...	Police Sergeant Barry Clive
Jill Esmond	...	Jo Turner
Myrna Loy	...	Ursula Georgi
Mary Duncan	...	June Raskob
Kay Johnson	...	Helen Dawson Frye
Florence Eldridge	...	Grace Coombs
C. Henry Gordon	...	Swami Yogadachi
Peg Entwistle	...	Hazel Clay Cousins
Harriet Hagman	...	May Raskob
Edward Pawley	...	Burns
Blanche Friderici	...	Miss Kirsten
Wally Albright	...	Bobby Stanhope
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Leon Ames	...	Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
Phyllis Fraser	...	Twelfth Woman (scenes deleted)

Storyline

Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. It seems that she too went to their school, but was forced to leave by their bigotry, and is exacting revenge. Will she be stopped in time to save Laura's son, Bobby?

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Plot Keywords:

swami | prediction | horoscope | son | seminary | 

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Genres:

Drama | Mystery

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Certificate:

Passed

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 September 1932 (USA)

Also Known As:

Hypnose

Filming Locations:

La Grande Station, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

RKO Radio Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

73 min 59 min (Turner library print)

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Peg Entwistle, who played Hazel Clay Cousins, committed suicide on the same day of the film's American release. She jumped off the "H" of the Hollywood sign, then "Hollywoodland."

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Connections

Referenced in Hollywood Hist-o-Rama: Myrna Loy (1961)

User Reviews

Great thriller featuring two future superstars-Myrna Loy and Irene Dunne.

This wonderful thriller stars Irene Dunne and Myrna Loy before they were superstars. It is based on the book by Irene Thayer. Myrna Loy wasn't treated was rejected by a college sorority group, and now she plans revenge on them.

This motion picture also has Peg Entwhistle as Hazel Cousins. This tragic beauty committed suicide not long after the picture was released, but she killed herself in a rather strange way. She jumped off of the letter H in the HOLLYWOOD sign.