March 17 movie: Front Page Woman. Enough with the comedies about men who hold their women in contempt! Was TCM doing a series on "Women Who Love The Men Who Hate Them" or something? Bette Davis and George Brent play reporters at rival newspapers. They're in love but she won't marry him until he admits that she's as good a reporter as he is. Instead he destroys her career with some truly vicious stunts (like planting false evidence for her to find and put on the front page of her paper). This is like His Girl Friday if Cary Grant hated Rosalind Russell and rejoiced in her downfall. They gave Davis the last laugh, but it was too little, too late. Ugh.
Every few years I watch this movie, find it totally repugnant, then forget I've seen it and watch it again, remembering how much I hate it only after I'm well into a repeat viewing. Well no more. I'm taking my stand right here. Writing this movie up will help me remember next time that I've seen it before and it's vile.
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