WOMEN MUST DRESS (1935) Minna Gombell, Gavin Gordon & Hardie Albright | Comedy, Drama, Romance | B&W

Women Must Dress is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Reginald Barker and starring Minna Gombell and Gavin Gordon. It was produced and co-written by the former silent film actress Dorothy Davenport, who had been working as a producer since the death of her husband Wallace Reid in 1923. The film was a rare leading role for Gombell, and marked the film debut of Jon Hall, albeit under his birth name Charles Locher.

SYNOPSIS
A wife is devastated when her husband divorces her and runs off with a younger woman. However, she finds that she has a flair for designing clothes, and soon she's working as a dress designer and is a partner in a successful and fashionable women's clothing store.

Linda Howard discovers that her husband is having an affair and takes their young adult daughter Janet away to start a new life. Linda becomes a successful fashion designer but begins to re-examine her own life choices when Janet forsakes her successful-but-bland doctor boyfriend for a faster, more loose set of companions.

CAST & CREW
Minna Gombell as Linda Howard
Gavin Gordon as Philip Howard
Lenita Lane as Eve Sheldon
Suzanne Kaaren as Janet Howard
Hardie Albright as David
Zeffie Tilbury as Peg Martin
Paul Ellis as Raphela Mendoza
Arthur Lake as Janet's Friend
Jon Hall as Janet's other Friend

Directed by Reginald Barker
Written by Dorothy Davenport, Edmund Joseph, Frank Farnsworth
Produced by Dorothy Davenport, W. Ray Johnston
Cinematography Milton R. Krasner
Edited by Jack Ogilvie
Distributed by Monogram Pictures
Release date February 1, 1935
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
Production likely began in October, 1934. The cast list included, according to The Hollywood Filmograph, "winners of the Monogram Agfa Amsco contest." Filming took ten days on a budget of around $75,000.

Copyright has lapsed since the original theatrical run of Women Must Dress, and the film is now in public domain.

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