Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, The Women is a 1939 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Clare Boothe Luce's 1936 play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who had to make the film acceptable for the Production Code for it to be released. The film stars Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Mary Boland, Florence Nash, and Virginia Grey. Marjorie Main and Phyllis

"Circa 1942, Norma Shearer, the Canadian-born actress celebrated as MGM’s 'First Lady of the Screen,' wed her second and final husband, ski entrepreneur and former Army officer Marti Arrouge, in a quiet Los Angeles ceremony. By then, Shearer had gracefully retired from her acclaimed Hollywood career, having earned an Academy Award for The Divorcee (1930) and multiple nominations for roles that defined sophistication in the 1930s. Her marriage to Arrouge marked a new chapter of private contentmen