JEZEBEL (1938)

 

Directed by: William Wyler

Based on the play by: Owen Davis

Starring: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Richard Cromwell, Fay Bainter, Henry O'Neill, Spring Byington, John Litel, Gordon Oliver, Janet Shaw, Theresa Harris, Margaret Early, Irving Pichel, Eddie Anderson, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Lew Payton, George Renevant, Ann Codee, Stuart Holmes

103 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, Julie Marsden is a beautiful and free spirited, rapacious Southern belle who is sure of herself and controlling of her fiancé Preston Dillard, a successful young banker. Julie's sensitive but domineering personality--she does not want so much to hurt as to assert her independence--forces a wedge between Preston and herself. To win him back, she plays North against South amid a deadly epidemic of yellow fever which claims a surprising victim.

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