Jezebel (Wyler, 1938): Regent Street Cinema, 1pm
Chicago Reader review:
They wouldn’t let Bette Davis be Scarlett O’Hara, so Warners cooked up
this 1938 antebellum epic for her—and her performance, as the fiery
southern belle who marries a banker (George Brent) though her heart
belongs to a dandy (Henry Fonda), was good enough to win her an Oscar.
As usual with director William Wyler, the film is far more interesting
for its actors than for its direction; but some of the set pieces—the
ball where Davis appears in a scandalous red dress and the yellow-fever
epidemic (shades of the burning of Atlanta)—are still impressive.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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