Women Are Like That (1938)

Director:

Stanley Logan

Writers:

Horace Jackson (screen play), Albert Z. Carr (from: the Saturday Evening Post story "Return From Limbo" by)

Stars:

Kay Francis, Pat O'Brien, Ralph Forbes

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kay Francis	...	Claire Landin
Pat O'Brien	...	Bill Landin
Ralph Forbes	...	Martin Brush
Melville Cooper	...	Mainwaring
Thurston Hall	...	Claudius King
Grant Mitchell	...	Mr. Snell
Gordon Oliver	...	Howard Johns
John Eldredge	...	Charles Braden
Herbert Rawlinson	...	Avery Flickner
Hugh O'Connell	...	George Dunlap
Georgia Caine	...	Mrs. Amelia Brush
Joyce Compton	...	Miss Hall
Sarah Edwards	...	Mrs. Snell
Josephine Whittell	...	Miss Douglas
Loia Cheaney	...	Miss Perkins

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

regeneration | father daughter relationship | wedding | women in business | long island new york | 

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Taglines:

A Star-Match Nobody Dreamed of in a Picture Everyone Loves!

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 April 1938 (USA)

Also Known As:

Return from Limbo

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros

Technical Specs

Runtime:

79 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

William Hopper is on studio records in the role of Larraby, but he was not seen in the movie. Sam McDaniel is listed in some modern sources as a porter, but he also was not seen in the movie.

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Quotes

Claudius King: [laughing] So, not content with ruining your life, Willie also ruined your speech, eh?
Claire Landin, aka Miss Claire King: Willie did *not* ruin my speech; after he got out, I really outdid myself. I'll bet half the married women in that room went directly home and beat up their husbands.
Claudius King: [sniggering] Wouldn't surprise me. I've always contended that modern civilization wrecked itself when we separated women from goats and moved them into the house.

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Connections

Referenced in Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)

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Soundtracks

"Gee! But You're Swell"
(1936) (uncredited)
Music by Abel Baer
Played at the cocktail party for Mr. Snell

User Reviews

This seems like a competent but very tired premise

Kay Francis and Pat O'Brien marry and things seem good...for a while. However, O'Brien is an incredibly misogynistic and insecure man and when his wife helps him pull off a great deal for his advertising agency, he does what only an idiot would do--leave his wife and quit his job!! Later, once he sobers up, he spends the rest of the movie doing pretty much everything he can to prove to Kay that is is HE who is a bigger man than she is. Other than bashing her over the head with a club, I can't imagine making O'Brien more obnoxious and unlikable. Throwing a giant temper tantrum and behaving boorishly gets pretty old pretty fast.

Had this battle of the sexes been done with finesse or any sense of humor at all, it would have played so much better. Films such as ADAM'S RIB and THE AWFUL TRUTH had humor plus the films were a bit more balanced. Here, though, the humorless message seems to be that women should just shut up and let their man do all the thinking. And it's not just the sexist message that is the problem--the film just isn't written well and it seems that Francis and O'Brien somehow got saddled with a bit of a lemon.

Tired and not particularly entertaining--this one is skipable.