Jungle Red!: The Making of MGM's The Women

How Hollywood's greatest actresses proved women didn't need leading men to rule the box office in one of cinema's most daring films.

Nineteen thirty—nine is generally regarded as the greatest year in cinema history, producing such outstanding films as Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Goodbye, MisterChips, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Stage Coach, and Ninotchka. No less a critically acclaimed or financially successful movie release that year was The Women, a film now ...