The Women — Infidelity, Gossip, and Backbiting

Film:
The Women, 1939
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, and Joan Fontaine
Synopsis (from NetFlix):
George Cukor directs an all-female cast in this catty tale about battling and bonding that was edgy for its time — and is considered the ultimate women’s movie of the 1930s. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and other Hollywood leading ladies [...]

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Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? — Interracial Marriage

Film:
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? 1967
Starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn.
Synopsis:
The movie concerns Joanna Drayton, a young white American woman (Houghton) and a man with whom she’s had a whirlwind romance, Dr. Prentice (Poitier), an African American she met while on a holiday in Hawaii. As the movie opens, they’re at the San [...]

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The Man in the White Suit — Innovation, Fear, and Greed.

Film: The Man in the White Suit , 1951
Starring Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood
Thoughts:

I would like everyone reading this post to imagine the implications of Sidney Stratton’s miracle cloth. Think about it. If a cloth never got dirty, and never wore out, it would never need replacing. That means that time and energy and resources would be saved in not having to clean or replace your clothing. However, on the flip side jobs would be lost, and production would go down having (what I see as a temporary) negative effect on the economy. What would be the moral thing to do in this situation?

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