Bette Davis
Regina Giddens
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The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman, considered a classic of 20th century drama. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15, of the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little
- Lillian Hellman
- 1939
The Little Foxes is a 1941 American drama film directed by William Wyler. The screenplay by Lillian Hellman is based on her 1939 play The Little Foxes. Hellman's ex-husband Arthur Kober, Dorothy Parker and her husband Alan Campbell contributed additional scenes and dialogue.
A classic film adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play about a ruthless Southern family in the early 20th century. Bette Davis stars as Regina Giddens, a greedy and manipulative matriarch who clashes with her daughter and niece over a business deal.
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- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1941-08-29
The Little Foxes (1941) Regina Hubbard Giddens (Bette Davis) and her scheming brothers, Oscar (Carl Benton Reid) and Ben (Charles Dingle), plan to get rich from a cotton mill, but f...
Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (1939) is often considered a classic American 20th-century drama. Set in Alabama in 1900, the play explores themes of greed, passive violence, and female agency in the deep south, not yet 50 years removed from the end of the Civil War.
In 1900, in the Southern town of Linnet, the notorious Hubbard family is hated by the residents since they exploit the poor and the Black people in their business. Regina Giddens, née Hubbard, is married to Horace Giddens, a good man who is hospitalized in Baltimore with a heart condition.
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The Little Foxes was Goldwyn's first production since splitting from United Artists. The film was nominated for the following Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Music Scoring of a Dramatic Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Directing and Best Art Decoration.
