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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790744124
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 0790744120
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2000
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1938
Editorial Review:
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Bette Davis won her second Best Actress Oscar for her showcase role in this sumptuous southern costume melodrama, which was released in 1938 in response to the phenomenal popularity of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind. (It would take another full year for the famous film adaptation of Mitchell's novel to be released.) The setting is New Orleans in 1862, and Davis plays Julie, an egocentric southern belle who's used to getting her way. Henry Fonda plays the equally selfish banker who breaks off their engagement, prompting Julie to a variety of futile schemes to win him back. Gracefully directed by William Wyler, the film won Oscars for Davis and Fay Bainter (for Best Supporting Actress), and was nominated for Best Picture, Music Score, and Cinematography. Highlights include the lavish ball scene where unmarried ladies dressed in traditional white are horrified by Julie's scandalous red dress, and Fonda's subsequent pleasure upon witnessing Julie's humiliation. An absorbing period melodrama, this film was ultimately overshadowed by Gone with the Wind, but it remains a classic in its own right thanks to Wyler and his remarkable cast. --Jeff Shannon
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Bette Davis didn't get to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, but she did get to play a troublesome Southern belle in William Wyler's 1938 Jezebel. Davis's character, a coquette fond of stirring up rivalries among the men, goes too far and loses her fiancé (Henry Fonda), but she finds atonement when she cares for him during illness. This handsome melodrama by Wyler (who later directed Davis in The Little Foxes) is fully absorbing (John Huston contributed to the script), and Davis's carefully constructed performance does make one draw instant comparisons with Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind. --Tom Keogh
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Bette Davis plays a self-involved southern belle whose neurotic attempts to mold her fiance (Henry Fonda) to her own designs eventually bring about her tragic downfall. Co-stars George Brent and Fay Bainter. Year: 1938 Director: William Wyler Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
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Bette Davis plays a strong-willed woman who loses the love of her life to another woman in a complex portrayal. Unlike Bette Davis' character the other woman is willing to follow tradition and succumb to social graces and responsibility. In the end, it celebrates the independence and strength of a woman, in spite of her doom and there's never a rushed moment in the film or a grand-scale spectacle of emotions. There are so many beautifully realized scenes of sincere regret but also of the will ... Read More
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This is another gem that I pulled from the shelves of the public library. I'd never heard of it and didn't expect much, especially with the melodramatic title of Jezebel!
So I was happilly surprised at how good it was. The star is of course, Bette Davis, looking far more beautiful than I had ever seen her to be elsewhere. It's said that she fell in love with the director, William Wyler, during the shooting and that may explain her radiance, joyfulness and even moments of gentleness--qualities ... Read More
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If you ever want to make someone understand why Bette Davis was the star she was, you have only to plop them down and have them watch this! As Julie Marsden, a headstrong,willful Southern Belle (is there any other kind?LOL)she upsets convention,indeed flouts it,in her way of doing things in her sphere,1852 New Orleans,where women had a place and,for the most part.stayed there. No so,Julie! From her entrance (a STAR entrance is there ever was one)Bette makes it clear and indelible,just who her character is and ... Read More
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Jezebel is one of Bette Davis' best known films--and for a good reason! Davis turns out an incredible performance as Julie Marsden, a haughty, stubborn, selfish and rather spoiled young woman from a wealthy Southern family who takes her fiancé for granted and enjoys manipulating people. Indeed, Bette Davis acted so well that she won a Best Actress Oscar for this performance. While in some ways the film is a vehicle for Davis, we also get great acting from a very special cast. Henry Fonda plays Preston Dillard, ... Read More
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I love all old movies, I have been teaching school for the last 39 years, I am the oldest of my school but the youngest in spirit, energy
My favorite moments are the time spent watching all my old movies.
I am trying to get as many as I can, I do have quite a collection, of new old, drama, comedies, musicals, westerns, etc
There are still some movies that I can't get yet because they haven't been realised yet. But I am still hoping. Exanple The Blue Veil with Jane Wyman ... Read More
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