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The Little Foxes

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The Little Foxes
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NR,1hr 56min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
August 21, 1941
Director:
William Wyler
Distributor:
RKO
Starring:
Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright  ...more
Synopsis: Playwright Lillian Hellman first wrote of the horrible Hubbard family in her 1939 play The Little Foxes. In this lavish 1941 film version, Bette Davis takes over for Broadway's Tallulah Bankhead in the role of conniving turn-of-the-century Southern aristocrat Regina Hubbard Giddens. Regina's equally odious brothers (Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid) want her to lend them 75,000 dollars to help build a cotton mill. To do this, she must make peace with her long-estranged husband, Horace (Herbert ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
The Little Foxes is a triumphant screen translation of Lillian Hellman's classic stage melodrama, blessed with an exceptional cast and expert direction. True, there are a few minor missteps in the manner in which the play has been "opened up" for the screen, the most obvious being the addition of a rather stereotypical crusading journalist boyfriend for Alexandra. But these flaws are made up for by ... Full Review
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Bette Davis
Regina Hubbard Giddens
Herbert Marshall
Horace Giddens
Teresa Wright
Alexandra Giddens
Richard Carlson
David Hewitt
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