when ladies meet

May 19 movie: When Ladies Meet. I've love the Joan Crawford remake of this, and had no idea it was a remake! The original starred Myrna Loy in the part later played by Joan Crawford, also Robert Montgomery instead of Robert Taylor, Ann Harding (Greer Garson), Frank Morgan (Herbert Marshall) and Alice Brady (Spring Byington). The remake is less awkwardly stagey: in the original everything happens in one room, until they move to another room where everything happens, people walk in and out of doors all the time, that sort of thing. In just about every other way the original is the superior movie. Especially Myrna Loy instead of Joan Crawford. She makes the character so much more believable and sympathetic. Crawford's version is a selfish, deluded fool who is enabled by everyone around her. Loy's is a woman who realizes she's been selfish and deluded, and makes good. Much more satisfying.