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Thirteen Women
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Thirteen Women is a 1932 American pre-Code psychological thriller film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Archainbaud. It stars Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez. The film is based on the 1930 bestselling novel of the same name by Tiffany Thayer.Thirteen women, who were sorority sisters at the all girl's college St. Alban's, all write to a clairvoyant "swami" (C. Henry Gordon) who by mail sends each a horoscope foreseeing swift doom. However, the clairvoyant is under the sway of Ursula Georgi (Myrna Loy), a half-Javanese Eurasian woman who was snubbed at school by the other women owing to her mixed-race heritage, eventually forcing Georgi to leave school. She now seeks revenge by manipulating the women into killing themselves or each other. She also goads the clairvoyant into killing himself by falling into the path of a subway train. The victims are set up and killed off one by one until Laura Stanhope (Irene Dunne), living in Beverly Hills, is one of the few still alive.Peg Entwistle, the woman who later became infamous for jumping to her death from the H in the giant "HOLLYWOOD" sign, made her only film appearance as Hazel. | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink: Ursula attempts to Murder Laura's son Bobby by sending him a box of poisoned chocolates. | |
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Disappeared Dad: Bobby's father is never mentioned. The implication is that he is dead and that Laura is a widow, as Jo discusses the possibility of her remarrying. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Several characters were deleted from the film's final version, including those played by Leon Ames, Phyllis Fraser, and Betty Furness (in what would have been Furness's film debut at the age of 16). As a result, the film portrays only eleven women, not thirteen, with Fraser and Furness playing the two characters edited out of the film. | |
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Artifact Title: Two of the women were cut from the final print of the film, which means that Thirteen Women only portrays eleven women. | |
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Adaptational Sexuality | |
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Adaptational Sexuality: In the film, Hazel Cousins is a married woman who kills her husband and goes to prison. In the original book, Hazel is a virgin who remains so simply because she is considered too beautiful; men are either too intimidated to approach her, assume she is married or engaged or believe that she will break their heart. Hazel eventually becomes a lesbian after she is seduced by the wife of the doctor treating her for tuberculosis. Hazel starves herself to death in a sanitarium while suffering the heartache of having been abandoned by her lover Martha. | |
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Best Served Cold: Ursula waits 10 years before initiating her scheme of vengeance against the 13 women who had ostracized her at school because of her race. | |
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Who Is Driving? | |
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Who Is Driving?: A non-comedic example. When Burns sees the police car behind him, he bails out of the limousine and leaves Laura trapped in the speeding car. Sgt. Clive has to jump from car to the other to steer the limo off the road.note While in a modern car taking your foot off the accelerator would cause the car to slow down, and possibly stall, luxury cars in the 1930s often came with a hand throttle that allowed the driver to set the speed to remain constant with no further input. | |
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Hypnotic Eyes | |
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Hypnotic Eyes: Ursula is able to hypnotize people by staring deeply into their eyes. | |
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Dragon Lady: Ursula is a sinister Eurasian beauty who dresses in slinky gowns and has Hypnotic Eyes. | |
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Yellowface: Myrna Loy uses her exotic looks to play the half-caste Ursula. | |
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Motive Rant | |
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Motive Rant: | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: The bullying Ursula suffered was undoubtedly dreadful, but it does not justify a campaign of murder waged ten years later. | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness: In the novel, May and June Raskob are twin sisters who work in a circus, but in the book they are overweight side show attractions, rather than photogenic trapeze artists as in the film. | |
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Glamorous Single Mother | |
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Glamorous Single Mother: Laura is a young widow (presumably. Her husband's fate is never mentioned but he is definitely out of the picture) raising her son Booby. However, she lives in a Big Fancy House with servants, and is rich enough not to need to work. And is played by the glamorous Irene Dunne. | |
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Sinister Subway | |
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Sinister Subway: Ursula coerces the swami into throwing himself under a subway train once she has no further use for him. | |
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide | |
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Ursula hypnotizes the Swami and commands him to throw himself under a subway train. | |
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Storybook Opening | |
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Storybook Opening: Begins with a copy of the novel on which it is based opening to show a page explaining about the power of suggestion, complete with references to a psychology journal. The movie proper then starts. | |
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Reckless Gun Usage | |
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Reckless Gun Usage: While talking with Ursula, Helen casually waves her revolver around; even pointing it at herself at one stage. She then casually tosses it aside without looking where she is tossing it. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The movie was drastically shortened in editing, so several plot threads are left dangling. Possibly the most significant is: do the police ever catch up with Burns? | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once the last horoscope has been sent, Ursula has no further use for the swami and coerces him into throwing himself in front of a subway train. | |
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GottaKillEmAll | |
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Gotta Kill 'Em All: Ursula is determined to kill (or otherwise destroy) the thirteen women she blames for ruining her life. | |
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Hide Your Lesbians | |
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Hide Your Lesbians: In the novel, Hazel is a lesbian who falls in love with a woman named Martha. The film has Hazel married to a man, with Martha Adapted Out entirely. The movie was originally going to feature Martha, complete with the implication that she and Hazel were having an extramarital affair, but the strict censorship imposed by the Hays Code resulted in all of Martha's scenes being cut. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: The film is based on a bestselling novel that has largely been forgotten nowadays. | |
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High-Speed Hijack | |
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High-Speed Hijack: Sgt. Clive has to jump from the police car on to the running board of Laura's driverless limousine. | |
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Half-Breed Discrimination | |
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Half-Breed Discrimination: The reason for Ursula's Gotta Kill 'Em All murder spree: | |
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"Number of Objects" Title: Thirteen Women | |
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Despair Event Horizon: June Raskob goes mad after being manipulated into killing her twin sister May by dropping her during their trapeze act. Grace later comments that June has been confined to an asylum ever since the accident. | |
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The Vamp: Ursula keeps the swami and Burns under thumb through a combination of hypnosis and raw sex appeal. | |
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You Got Murder | |
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You Got Murder: Ursula mails Bobby a box of poisoned chocolates for his birthday. | |
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