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Jezebel is a 1938 American romantic-drama film starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda as a spoiled belle and a banker in antebellum New Orleans. The film was adapted from a play and won Davis her second Best Actress Oscar.
Jezebel: Directed by William Wyler. With Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay. In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
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- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1938-03-26
A classic film starring Bette Davis as a rebellious Southern belle who loses and regains her fiancé in 1850s New Orleans amid a yellow fever epidemic. The plot summary provides details of the film's main events, characters, themes and historical context.
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In antebellum New Orleans, an impetuous Southern belle risks losing the man who loves her when her unruly behavior at a ball causes a scandal. Subtitles: English. Starring: Bette Davis Henry Fonda George Brent Margaret Lindsay Donald Crisp Fay Bainter Richard Cromwell Henry O'Neill Spring Byington John Litel. Directed by: William Wyler. Jezebel.
- William Wyler
- January 1, 1938
- Bette Davis
What makes Jezebel a shockingly potent film for today is that a) its protagonist, Julie Marsden (Davis) is the type of white-privileged, spoiled, and arrogant young woman who would be called a “Karen†on today’s social media for causing a scene in public; b) the obvious racial inequalities, which are inevitable when dealing ...
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Bette Davis plays a self-involved southern belle whose neurotic attempts to mold her fiancé (Henry Fonda) to her own designs eventually bring about her tragi...
