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 and was adapted for the screen by bartlett cormack and samuel ornitz .

several characters were deleted from the film 's final release , including those played by leon ames , phyllis fraser , and betty furness ( in what would have been furness ' film debut at the age of 16 ) .

the film portrays only eleven women , not thirteen , with fraser and furness playing the two characters edited out of the film .

the film premiered in october at the roxy theater in new york city on october 15 , 1932 , then released in los angeles , and a few other cities in november 1932 .

a limited national release came in 1933 .

originally running seventy-three minutes , the studio edited fourteen minutes out of the picture prior to release .

the film was re-released in 1935 ( post-code ) by rko , hoping to turn a profit by cashing in on the growing popularity of stars dunne and loy .

thirteen women has been cited as an early " female ensemble " film .

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thirteen women <EOT> women , war & peace is a co - production of thirteen and fork films .

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on february 21 , 2012 , thirteen women was released on manufactured - on - demand dvd through the warner archive collection . [ 8 ]

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we’d love your help . let us know what’s wrong with this preview of thirteen by kelley armstrong .

makers : women in film airs tuesday , october 7 at 9 p . m . on thirteen , and october 10 at 6 p . m . on wliw world .

hall , mordaunt ( 1932 ) . " another murder mystery . thirteen women . . . " , part of multiple film reviews , the new york times , october 15 , 1932 . retrieved november 22 , 2017 .

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you can also find the text of thirteen women online at the internet archive : urltoken . be sure to browse through one of the formats that preserve david berger’s illustrations from the book , some of which were pretty strong stuff for their time .

aha ! it was something called “thirteen men” ( first edition ) . correctly surmising the reason for its placement there , i immediately started reading it .

the french political thinker alexis de toqueville travelled extensively through the united states in gathering research for his book democracy in america . in this excerpt , he described the belief that american men and women lived in “separate spheres : ” men in public , women in the home . this expectation justified the denial of rights to women . all women were denied political rights in nineteenth century america , but only a small number of wealthy families could afford to remove women from economic production , like de toqueville claimed .

thirteen women : urltoken shortly before shedding her snakeskin vamp persona for good by wrapping herself in the ermine confines of nora charles , myrna loy terrified and terrorized as the murderous mesmerist ursula georgi in the pre - code horror show thirteen women . following a racist sorority ' s cruel rebuff , half - caste ursula embarks on a blood - thirsty trail of deceit and murder until only one woman ( irene dunne ) is left to face her . aside from the allure and interest of its two leading ladies - - each on the cusp of their ascension into cinema legend - - thirteen women ' s delights are rather more diabolical and devastating than the more domestic concerns of a traditional " women ' s picture . " from its breathless and terrifying ( and arrestingly staged ) opening aerial atrocity through its stabbings , suicides and hidden bombs , thirteen women ' s relentless pace startles and astonishes , ever driven by loy ' s portrayal of ursula ' s unalloyed and unapologetic evil . - - - - - - 1 , 000 + rare films , tv movies , and series on dvd direct from the studio . urltoken

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after thirteen years held captive by her kidnapper , ivy moxam escapes . piecing back together the version of family life that existed before is no easy task .

thirteen - year - old danielle bregoli , aka the “cash me outside” girl , is slamming the “dr . phil show” for its editing , which she says “was

• from jana pruden of the walrus : thirteen years ago , a five - year - old girl named tamra keepness disappeared in regina . she has never been found

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from bbc three’s thirteen and the oscar - winning room to the the unbreakable kimmy schmidt and 10 cloverfield lane , british and american pop culture has been gripped by the kidnap narrative .

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thirteen - year - old danielle bregoli , aka the " cash me outside " girl , is slamming the " dr . phil show " for its editing , which she says " was

thirteen women was made into a film within a few months of its publication in 1932 . starring irene dunne and myrna loy , “thirteen women” is a good example of a talkie from the brief period before the hayes code took effect , and was considered so lurid that rko trimmed out two of the dozen deaths in the picture soon after its first release . you can read several appreciations of the film , at the irene dunne project and une cinephile . and , if you have the stamina , you can watch the whole thing online at youtube : part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , and part 6 .

laura benanti , patti lupone , sherie rene scott and nikka graff lanzarone in " women on the verge of a nervous breakdown . "

fictional story is that of “the indiana mole women” , four women kept in an underground bunker by a doomsday cult leader , who told them that the world above ground had burnt to nothing . despite its surface tonal silliness , it shares dna with the story of “

hartigan - o’connor , ellen . ties that buy : women and commerce in revolutionary america . philadelphia : university of pennsylvania press , 2009 .

worldwide – 35 . 6 per cent – will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime . we know more about the lingering psychological affects physical and sexual abuse have on women , and we also know that the women that surround us are not solely defined by these experiences .

the idea of separate spheres also displayed a distinct class bias . middle - and upper - classes reinforced their status by shielding “their” women from the harsh realities of wage labor . women were to be mothers and educators , not partners in production . but lower - class women continued to contribute directly to the household economy . the middle - and upper - class ideal was only feasible in households where women did not need to engage in paid labor . in poorer households , women engaged in wage labor as factory workers , piece - workers producing items for market consumption , tavern and inn keepers , and domestic servants . while many of the fundamental tasks women performed remained the same—producing clothing , cultivating vegetables , overseeing dairy production , and performing any number of other domestic labors—the key difference was whether and when they performed these tasks for cash in a market economy .

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 and was adapted for the screen by bartlett cormack and samuel ornitz . [ 1 ]

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several characters were deleted from the film ' s final release , including those played by leon ames , phyllis fraser , and betty furness ( in what would have been furness ' film debut at the age of 16 ) . the film portrays only eleven women , not thirteen , with fraser and furness playing the two characters edited out of the film . [ 2 ]

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 .

dublin , thomas . transforming women’s work : new england lives in the industrial revolution . ithaca , n . y : cornell university press , 1994 .

thirteen ( or 13 ) marks the end of an era . for at least a few years , there won ' t be any full - length women of the otherworld books . i ' m still hoping she will write some spin - offs in the form of a trilogy or something . i think i ' m completely in denial that this actually might really be the end . i have had a hard relationship with the last few books in this series , but thirteen returned to that what made me fall in love with the series . awesome characters , cute interactions , and plenty of action . i w

. reticker is one of the world’s leading documentary filmmakers putting a lens on the real - life dramatic stories of women’s rights and international social justice issues .

simply by calling attention to the multitude of films that do not meet the criteria , bechdel has exponentially raised awareness of misrepresentation of women in the movies .

explores kimmy’s techniques for dealing with her trauma , but also in many ways aligns itself with modern american sitcoms about women in new york city . we are explicitly interested in women telling their own stories . arguably , to tell their own nuanced , varied , individual stories , these characters must first survive their kidnaps .

disney also co - founded the daphne foundation , which works with low - income communities in the five boroughs of new york city . her work in philanthropy , women’s engagement and leadership , and conflict resolution has been recognized through the epic award from the white house project , the changing the landscape for women award from the center for the advancement of women , and the prestigious international advocate for peace ( iap ) award from the cardozo law school’s cardozo journal of conflict resolution .

, the first full length documentary about the impact of hiv on women in the u . s . she produced and directed the 2005 emmy award - winning documentary

for the pbs series wide angle , which focuses on the role of women in rebuilding post - genocide rwanda . she also garnered an emmy for directing and producing

halttunen , karen . confidence men and painted women : a study of middle - class culture in america , 1830 - 1870 . yale university press , 1982 .

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ellen hartigan - o’connor , ties that buy : women and commerce in revolutionary america ( philadelphia : university of pennsylvania press , 2009 ) , 138 . [ ↩ ]

it also reflects a culture more specifically interested in female experience than before , as well as one in which women writers have more creative influence than ever . emma donoghue’s

“it has to ( 1 ) have two women in it , ( 2 ) who talk to each other , about ( 3 ) something other than a man . ”

held back the release of " thirteen women " to take advantage of irene´s great success in " back street " didn´t help matters . it seems this story of deleting one victim after the other , which reminds slightly of slasher elements of our modern films was just too brutal for contemporary moviegoers - and i assume that this film was quite a shock for irene dunne fans having still the impression of " back street " on their minds .

thirteen marks the final entry for full - length novels in the otherworld series . perhaps uncreative with its title , thirteen can also indicate bad luck and superstition , so maybe it works well enough . i ' m happy the author changed the formula up a bit by having this be multiple point of view . the series has been filled with a few mains , not just one , so having their individual perspectives makes sense . still she mainly makes this a savannah book , leaving the young witch as the focal point to wrap

” : three young women who were kidnapped and kept in an bunker , where they were sexually abused and tortured ( sometimes becoming pregnant ) . they escaped after ten years underground .

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thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes . little do they realize that ursula , a half - breed asian , is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths . it seems that she too went to their school , but was forced to leave by their bigotry , and is exacting revenge . will she be stopped in time to save laura ' s son , bobby ? written by robert tonsing

with a trapeze mishap , the " marvel circus " begins a series of horrifying accidental deaths , which seem to be hypnotically predicted by an exotic " swami " from the far east . as the bodies pile up , a connection becomes clear ; they are among the " thirteen women " who attended a boarding school with sexy mystic myrna loy ( as ursula georgi ) . it quickly becomes evident that ms . loy is seeking revenge against twelve schoolgirls . they were cruel to , and exposed loy , who was trying to pass as white . " do you know what it means to be a half - breed , a half - caste in world rule by whites ? " loy asks . sensible irene dunne ( as laura stanhope ) tries to reassure the still friendly women , but they are understandably wary . handsome detective ricardo cortez ( as barry clive ) investigates the deaths , which threaten to include ms . dunne ' s cute son . there are a few good moments , but they don ' t add up . * * * * * thirteen women ( 9 / 16 / 32 ) george archainbaud ~ myrna loy , irene dunne , ricardo cortez , jill esmond

thirteen is the final book for kelley armstrong’s women of the otherworld . while i’m very sad to see the end of one of my favorite series , i’m also glad that armstrong chose not to drag it out until she was beating a dead horse . the world is turning to chaos as the supernatural liberation movement sets into motion their plans to expose the supernatural population . with powerful demons now choosing sides , all the factions of the otherworld must work together if they hope to successfully stop the m

blewett , mary h . men , women , and work : class , gender , and protest in the new england shoe industry , 1780 - 1910 . urbana : university of illinois press , 1988 .

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while the market revolution remade many women’s economic roles , their legal status remained essentially unchanged . upon marriage , women were rendered legally dead by the notion of coverture , the custom that counted married couples as a single unit represented by the husband . without special precautions or interventions , women could not earn their own money , own their own property , sue , or be sued . any money earned or spent belonged by law to their husbands . women shopped on their husbands’ credit and at any time husbands could terminate their wives’ access to their credit . although a handful of states made divorce available—divorce had before only been legal in congregationalist states such as massachusetts and connecticut , where marriage was strictly a civil contract , rather than a religious one—it remained extremely expensive , difficult , and rare . marriage was typically a permanently binding legal contract .

that´s an interesting , odd , disturbing little film which hadn´t the luck of being successful in its time but has got some appreciation in the last years . after poor reviews , " thirteen women " was edited from its initial 74´minutes down to 59´minutes , which is the duration of the print we can watch nowadays . those missing 15 minutes explain some of the discrepancies of the script - to start with the fact that there are only 10 women and not the announced 13 . two characters were deleted completely and as rumors will have it a scene of myrna chasing irene through a train - i´d love to watch that ! considering what is packed in the surviving 60 minutes one can only imagine what happened in this missing quarter of an hour . even the fact that

pamela hogan is an executive producer of women , war & peace , producer / writer of the film about bosnia which kicks off the series – i came to testify – and co - writer of the series’ fourth film , the war we are living , about colombia . previously , she has been at the forefront of making pbs’s emmy - winning , international documentary series wide angle , a standard setter in the coverage of global women’s issues .

similar domestic expectations played out in the slave states . enslaved women labored in the fields . whites argued that african american women were less delicate and womanly than white women and therefore perfectly suited for agricultural labor . the southern ideal meanwhile established that white plantation mistresses were shielded from manual labor because of their very whiteness . throughout the slave states , however , aside from the minority of plantations with dozens of slates , the majority of white women by necessity continued to assist with planting , harvesting , and processing agricultural projects despite the cultural stigma attached to it . white southerners continued to produce large portions of their food and clothing at home . even when they were market - oriented producers of cash crops , white southerners still insisted that their adherence to plantation slavery and racial hierarchy made them morally superior to greedy northerners and their callous , cutthroat commerce . southerners and northerners increasingly saw their ways of life as incompatible .

thirteen women features the only film appearance of actress peg entwistle . entwistle became despondent over her career and jumped to her death from hollywood sign on september 16 , 1932 . the film premiered in new york on october 15 ( almost exactly a month after her suicide ) , and in los angeles in november . [ 2 ] [ 7 ] entwistle had a supporting role as " hazel cousins " in the original cut with scenes running approximately sixteen minutes long . her time onscreen was subsequently cut to four minutes after the film performed poorly for test audiences . [ 1 ]

which is also , of course , what also makes them almost irresistable . if you’re going to read a bad book , you don’t want one that’s half - heartedly bad , one whose author betrays any misgivings or sense of aesthetic standards . you want a full , unrepentant wallow–and that’s exactly what you get . in the case of thirteen women , you get adultery–both hetero - and homosexual–suicide , murder , rape , revenge , envy , gossip , corruption , show business , clairvoyance , yoga , blackmail , and chain letters . and i probably left something out of that list .

as myrna is typecast in this period as exotic vamp - still some way to the " thin man myrna " - irene is typecast as being poised , behaved and sensible - the most interesting aspect being that she is totally defined through motherhood in this film . irene´s screen persona certainly had a maternal streak through the years ; she played 18 times a mother in her 41 films . i can´t imagine that " thirteen women " was much of an acting challenge for irene - not after " back street " - but it´s surely once again a consolidating of her screen image .

this review was posted at under the covers it is sad to see a series that i love come to an end but it ' s also refreshing to see one ending on such a high note . oftentimes series just start falling on the quality and originality of the books but women of the otherworld has always either kept steady or improved . and thirteen is one of the best books in the series ! a truly perfect grand finale . and all i can do is applaud ms . armstrong for a job well done and now go cry in a corner because i won ' t

domestic expectations constantly changed and the market revolution transformed many women’s traditional domestic tasks . cloth production , for instance , advanced throughout the market revolution as new mechanized production increased the volume and variety of fabrics available to ordinary people . this relieved many better - off women of a traditional labor obligation . as cloth production became commercialized , women’s home - based cloth production became less important to household economies . purchasing cloth , and later , ready - made clothes , began to transform women from producers to consumers . one woman from maine , martha ballard , regularly referenced spinning , weaving , and knitting in the diary she kept from 1785 to 1812 . 41 martha , her daughters , and female neighbors spun and plied linen and woolen yarns and used them to produce a variety of fabrics to make clothing for her family . the production of cloth and clothing was a year - round , labor - intensive process , but it was for home consumption , not commercial markets .

malenda m . edwards to sabrina bennett , 4 apr 1839 , quoted in thomas dublin , ed . , farm to factory women’s letters , 1830 - 1860 ( new york : columbia university press , 1993 ) , 74 . [ ↩ ]

june mathis was one of the most powerful women in hollywood in the 1920s . she served as the first ( and most highly paid ) female executive at mgm , and wrote the hugely successful 1921 film the four horseman of the apocalypse .

in the " note from the author " at the end of thirteen , she says this is the last book in the otherworld series but raises the possibility of revisiting the world - presumably through the darkest powers and darkness rising series , which are clearly related in supernatural - powers / ideas but so far haven ' t quite been played out . ( less )

women might also parlay their feminine skills into businesses . in addition to working as seamstresses , milliners , or laundresses , women might undertake paid work for neighbors or acquaintances or combine clothing production with management of a boarding house . even slaves with particular skill at producing clothing could be hired out for a higher price , or might even negotiate to work part - time for themselves . most slaves , however , continued to produce domestic items , including simpler cloths and clothing , for home consumption .

pray the devil back to hell is the astonishing story of the liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator charles taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war , and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003 .

this fantastic movie is based on the bestselling novel of the same name written by tiffany thayer . the movie is not faithful to the book . there are a few differences . the plot for this one is about a woman , ursula georgi ( myrna loy ) , revolted by the fact that she was snubbed by the other women owing to her mixed - race heritage decides to revenge by tricking the women into killing each other and themselves . curious fact : the 12th and 13th women scenes were deleted from the film , leaving it with only 11 . also , peg entwistle ' s scenes in the original cut had 20 minutes , then it was cut to 16 minutes and then reduced to 4 minutes . each women received a horoscope , sent by a clairvoyant " swami " ( c . henry gordon ) , on which it tells that each one of them will die by commiting suicide or by the hand of others . georgi also hypnotizes the victims , leading them to commit suicide . in the end , when she confronts the last survivor of the women , laura stanhope ( irene dunne ) , doesn ' t kill her . ursula hypnotizes her into falling asleep . after that , she is caught and runs to the back of the train jumping to her death .

alison bechdel although she works as a cartoonist , alison bechdel has been a hugely influential figure in the world of film . in her comic dykes to watch out for , she outlines a set of criteria that are meant to score films’ depictions of women .

is an executive producer of women , war & peace , producer of the film pray the devil back to hell and writer on peace unveiled , the third film in the series about afghanistan . her longtime passion for women’s issues and peacebuilding led her to producing films . she has executive produced films that address various social issues , including family affair , playground , sun come up ( academy award® nominee 2011 , best documentary short ) and return , and is involved in several more films in various stages of development and production .

the film premiered in october at the roxy theater in new york city on october 15 , 1932 , [ 2 ] then released in los angeles , [ 3 ] and a few other cities in november 1932 . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] a limited national release came in 1933 . originally running seventy - three minutes , the studio edited fourteen minutes out of the picture prior to release . the film was re - released in 1935 ( post - code ) by rko , hoping to turn a profit by cashing in on the growing popularity of stars dunne and loy . thirteen women has been cited as an early " female ensemble " film . [ 6 ]

, about the role of women in re - building post - genocide rwanda . she also directed wide angle’s post - film interviews , including conversations with arundhati roy , james a . baker iiird , joseph stiglitz , leon panetta , susan rice , and george mitchell .

in 1741 , english colonists in new york city felt anxious . they worried about spanish and french plans to gain control of north america . they felt threatened by a recent influx of irish immigrants , whose catholicism might incline them to accept jobs as spanish spies . and , above all , they feared that the city ' s growing slave population , now numbering about 20 % of the 11 , 000 residents of manhattan and increasingly competing with white tradesmen for jobs , might revolt . when a series of thirteen fires broke out in march and april of 1741 , english colonists suspected a negro plot - - perhaps one involving poor whites . much as in salem a half century before , hysteria came to colonial america , and soon new york city ' s jails were filled to overflowing . in the end , despite grave questions about the contours of the suspected conspiracy , thirty - four defendants were executed . thirteen black men burned at the stake and seventeen more hanged . in addition , four alleged white ringleaders - - two men and two women - - made trips to new york city ' s gallows .

in cities , where women could buy cheap imported cloth to turn into clothing , they became skilled consumers . they stewarded money earned by their husbands by comparing values and haggling over prices . in one typical experience , mrs . peter simon , a captain’s wife , inspected twenty - six yards of holland cloth to ensure it was worth the £130 price . 42 even wealthy women shopped for high - value goods . while servants or slaves routinely made low - value purchases , the mistress of the household trusted her discriminating eye alone for expensive or specific purchases .

this understanding of the young woman kidnapped as a human being with a full , rounded life that both precedes and extends beyond her relationship with her kidnapper reveals a society with a greater awareness of both the extent of violence against women , and its impact . we know now that , for example ,

and while thirteen is fiction , part of that realness lies in the fact that , unlike a grisly headline , it moves beyond the misery . sensitivity is key but so too is suspense and – though there’s no kimmy schmidt - style screwball comedy –some humour . “there’s a lot of hope and humanity , ” dickens insists , before adding in a deadpan voice , “hopefully people don’t watch it and go , ‘that was a bit of a downer . ’”

the idea for the five - part thriller , which airs on the now web - only bbc3 , came from the londoner’s fascination with what happens once survivors are out of the public eye . “there are so many of those real - life horror stories of people who are taken , and i do think people are traditionally more interested in what happened wherever they were kept , ” dickens explains . “but i just thought : what happens to these women – and it does tend to be women – after the press is out of their face ? how do they begin to return to real life ? ”

chaudry travels internationally to documentary forums , festivals and markets ; has been a judge and panelist for the independent filmmaker project , silverdocs , pov , among others ; and is as an advisor on a feature documentary about floating schools and solar power in bangladesh . in addition to her documentary work , chaudry was a senior editor for a national women’s health magazine ; reported for the new york times ; produced a women’s health website for lifetime television ; and performs voiceovers . she holds degrees from columbia college and the columbia graduate school of journalism and is a member of the american federation of television and radio artists .

her plays include abeyance ( druid debut , druid theatre co ) , pumpgirl ( bush / traverse / manhattan theatre club ) , which won the 2007 susan smith blackburn award , the stewart parker award and was nominated for the irish times best new play , strandline ( fishamble ) which was shortlisted for the susan smith blackburn award and nominated for the meyer whitworth award , and bogwog ( npc ) o’neill centre connecticut . lally the scut was named by fintan o ' toole ( irish times ) as irish play of the year 2015 and poena 5x1 premiered in the underbelly at the edinburgh festival 2016 , receiving fantastic reviews . her short plays include thirteen ( women in power and politics , tricycle theatre ) , shaving the pickle ( 59e59 nyc ) and rubberfoot ( pentabus ) .

the war we are living travels to cauca , a mountainous region in colombia’s pacific southwest , where two extraordinary afro - colombian women are braving a violent struggle over their gold - rich lands . they are standing up for a generation of colombians who have been terrorized and forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy of war .

watching thirteen women i wonder what merle oberon must have thought . she lived in real life what myrna loy ' s character was experiencing in the film . it was only after she died that it came out that merle was of mixed racial origin . she successfully passed her entire life . loy who was in fact caucasian until she became the incarnation of the perfect wife and mother played a whole lot of these exotic characters . she borrows a bit from her performance as fu manchu ' s daughter in playing a woman who is exacting terrible revenge on members of a sorority at a finishing school who discovered her background and used it to get her expelled . it was her ticket into the white world and respectability as she saw it . using c . henry gordon as a phony swami she has unpleasant horoscopes made against her thirteen enemies . loy doesn ' t want to just kill them , she wants to torment them and uses gordon as her means . loy wants maximum satisfaction . in the case of irene dunne who she sees as her chief enemy loy also has plans for dunne ' s child as well . a whole lot of women dominate this film as the sisters like kay johnson , jill esmond , florence eldridge and more . ricardo cortez plays the police sergeant who tracks down loy and edward pawley plays another of the men she uses in her fiendish schemes . as this was a before the code film , there was some frank talk about racism under the guise of snobbery . no doubt that dunne and the rest were guilty of it . it drove loy off the deep end and she enacts a terrible vengeance . a really good before the code film that should be better known .

in the first half of the nineteenth century , families in the northern united states increasingly participated in the cash economy created by the market revolution . the first stirrings of industrialization shifted work away from the home . these changes transformed americans’ notions of what constituted work , and therefore shifted what it meant to be an american woman and an american man . as americans encountered more goods in stores and produced fewer at home , the ability to remove women and children from work determined a family’s class status . this ideal , of course , ignored the reality of women’s work at home and was possible for only the wealthy . the market revolution therefore not only transformed the economy , it changed the nature of the american family . as the market revolution thrust workers into new systems of production , it redefined gender roles . the market integrated families into a new cash economy . as americans purchased more goods in stores and produced fewer at home , the purity of the domestic sphere—the idealized realm of women and children—increasingly signified a family’s class status .

it’s the most contemporary project that barnard has been involved with in a while , and slightly jarring to see him using an iphone and offering up predictions on the future of tv . he reckons that true crime hits like making a murderer have had an effect on what audiences want from scripted drama . “we’ve had so many period dramas and all the rest of it . we want to watch real situations happen in the now , ” he says , citing thirteen as an example of what he sees as a larger trend .

i ' ve been a fan of the otherworld series ever since i picked up bitten and fell in love with the hot , complicated and largely dysfunctional romance between clay danvers and elena michaels . over the years , i have liked some stories more than others . some had better narrators , others had a stronger story arc , and yet others appealed more to the romance lover in me . but these last two otherworld books took the series to an entirely different level . thirteen was everything i wanted . . . everything i n

in thirteen’s opening episode , protagonist ivy moxam ( jodie comer ) begins to answer those questions , as she makes her escape from the bristol basement where she’s been held for 13 years . the world has carried on in the 26 - year - old’s absence : her parents have separated , her younger sister is engaged and her first love tim is married . unable to believe that ivy is alive , her sister even demands that the police carry out a dna test to make sure that the person claiming to be her sister isn’t an imposter .

never dwells or reimagines her sexual trauma ; it is dealt early on in the single throwaway line : “yes , there was weird sex stuff in the bunker . ” in fact , all these narratives focus not on the immediate experience of victimhood , but ultimately on survival . the singular experience these women share is not that they are kidnapped , but that they escape .

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i came to testify is the moving story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned and raped by serb - led forces in the bosnian town of foca broke history’s great silence – and stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law . their remarkable courage resulted in a triumphant verdict that led to new international laws about sexual violence in war .

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loy is a half - japanese , half - indian woman forced to leave a college sorority because of 12 racist members . she sets up a plan for revenge using gordon , an astrologer , to assist her . he comes up with terrifying horoscopes for the assorted victims that frighten the women into doing terrible things . one kills herself , while another murders her husband . the . . . read more

, kidnapped women are a very specific staple of the patriarchal canon . when we view the girl suffering at the hands of her abuser , the male gaze functions in a specific voyeuristic way : the straight male viewer can both , on one level , distance himself from ( and condemn the actions of ) the abuser , pitying his victim whilst simultaneously enjoying the on - screen depiction of transgressive sexual fantasies .

the revolution reverberated across the country . more and more farmers grew crops for profit , not self - sufficiency . vast factories and cities arose in the north . enormous fortunes materialized . a new middle class ballooned . and as more men and women worked in the cash economy , they were freed from the bound dependence of servitude . but there were costs to this revolution . as northern textile factories boomed , the demand for southern cotton swelled , and american slavery accelerated . northern subsistence farmers became laborers bound to the whims of markets and bosses . the market revolution sparked explosive economic growth and new personal wealth , but it also created a growing lower class of property - less workers and a series of devastating depressions , called “panics . ” many americans labored for low wages and became trapped in endless cycles of poverty . some workers , often immigrant women , worked thirteen hours a day , six days a week . others labored in slavery . massive northern textile mills turned southern cotton into cheap cloth . and although northern states washed their hands of slavery , their factories fueled the demand for slave - grown southern cotton and their banks provided the financing that ensured the profitability and continued existence of the american slave system . and so , as the economy advanced , the market revolution wrenched the united states in new directions as it became a nation of free labor and slavery , of wealth and inequality , and of endless promise and untold perils .

just as children were expected to be sheltered from the adult world of work , american culture expected men and women to assume distinct gender roles as they prepared for marriage and family life . an ideology of “separate spheres” set the public realm—the world of economic production and political life—apart as a male domain , and the world of consumers and domestic life as a female one . ( even non - working women labored by shopping for the household , producing food and clothing , cleaning , educating children , and performing similar activities . but these were considered “domestic” because they did not bring money into the household , although they too were essential to the household’s economic viability . ) while reality muddied the ideal , the divide between a private , female world of home , and a public , male world of business defined american gender hierarchy .

f marnie dickens crossed paths with tina fey , she reckons they would have a laugh about their differing approaches to writing about kidnap and survival . “i’d be like , ‘your show looks more fun to write , ’” the emerging screenwriter quips . while dickens has a playful nature that extends from her frequent witticisms to her bright blue nails , her debut drama is essentially the antithesis of unbreakable kimmy schmidt , fey’s offbeat comedy about a twentysomething cult escapee . don’t expect a weepy life - affirmer like lenny abrahamson’s oscar - nominated room , neither ; thirteen also subverts traditional abduction tales , but it’s a more adrenaline - charged offering .

these images are each taken from a different film , novel , or tv show . but they’re all variations on the same story . a girl suddenly disappeared . she was just a child , or perhaps a teenager . she vanished from the face of the earth so completely that even her own family have resigned themselves to never seeing her again , and never knowing why . she’s been missing for five , thirteen , fifteen years , alive and imprisoned all the while in a suburban cellar or basement or shed . and then , as suddenly as she disappeared , she is miraculously reinserted into her old life : once lost , now found .

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the story is , at best , preposterous . a group of women , all former members of a literary club at a prestigious girls’ school , receive mysterious letters from a swami yogadachi . the letters foretell some terrible event that will occur to each within the next few weeks . and sure enough , it does–at least to the first few . one commits suicide . another starves to death . a third murders her cheating husband in front of his entire office .

education equipped young women with the tools to live sophisticated , genteel lives . after sixteen - year - old elizabeth davis left home in 1816 to attend school , her father explained that the experience would “lay a foundation for your future character & respectability . ” 34 after touring the united states in the 1830s , alexis de tocqueville praised the independence granted to the young american woman , who had “the great scene of the world…open to her” and whose education prepared her to exercise both reason and moral sense . 35 middling young women also utilized their education to take positions as school teachers in the expanding common school system . bristol academy in tauten , maine , for instance , advertised “instruction…in the art of teaching” for female pupils . 36 in 1825 , nancy denison left concord academy with references indicating that she was “qualified to teach with success and profit” and “very cheerfully recommend [ ed ] ” for “that very responsible employment . ” 37

thirteen white women who all went to school together are marked for death by a half - caste woman that they were cruel to as kids . irene dunne plays the lead , an early precursor to the final girl from slasher movies made decades later . myrna loy as the killer is the principal reason to watch . she was cast as asian or half - asian a lot in early films . here , whatever they ' ve done to her makeup - wise works because she ' s stunning . ricardo cortez plays the detective investigating the case . it ' s nice to see an actual police detective be smart and not bumbling or corrupt . notable as the only film of peg entwistle , a young actress who infamously committed suicide by jumping off of the hollywood sign . one of the earliest movies with a female ensemble . the racial subject matter is also pretty frank for the time . i mentioned slasher films before . well , structurally this one is very similar so , in a sense , it ' s one of the earliest examples of what would become that subgenre . it ' s a very interesting movie with some good performances , clever direction , and bonus historical value .


comedy 's dirtiest dozen is a stand-up comedy concert film featuring big name talents before they reached stardom , including tim allen , chris rock , and bill hicks .

it was created and produced by stuart s. shapiro after the cult success of his film mondo new york .

the performances were shot on film , instead of on tape like most comedy shows of the time .

island films ( an offshoot of chris blackwell 's island records ) intended to run comedy 's dirtiest dozen in theaters and not on cable tv .

due to financial changes at island , the film was only screened in new york and los angeles , only to be released on vhs and dvd after tim allen and chris rock became stars .

it has been shown on the ovation channel .

richard baker and rick messina of messina baker mgmt auditioned hundred of comics in new york and los angeles for this production .

in reviewing the film playboy magazine singled out chris rock and larry scarano as standouts .

otto & george and bill hicks were praised in other reviews .

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comedy ' s dirtiest dozen <EOT> comedy ' s dirtiest dozen , laughing out loud : vol . 2 , redneck comedy roundup

comedy ' s dirtiest dozen / heavyweights of comedy video comedy ' s dirtiest dozen - stand up at it ' s best - before they all got " big " heavyweights of comedy - tough to sit through wasn ' t as good as dirtiest dozen .

comedy ' s dirtiest dozen / heavyweights of comedy film great comedy . if you like good comedians buy this dvd . it ' s worth every penny . gloria .

comedy ' s dirtiest dozen / heavyweights of comedy movie was released dec 04 , 2001 by the eclectic dvd distribution studio .

if you want to answer the questions , " who starred in the movie comedy ' s dirtiest dozen ? " and " what is the full cast list of comedy ' s dirtiest dozen ? " then this page has got you covered .

this cast list of who was in comedy ' s dirtiest dozen includes both lead and minor roles . ( 12 items )

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comedy ' s dirtiest dozen cast list , listed alphabetically with photos when available . this list of comedy ' s dirtiest dozen actors includes any comedy ' s dirtiest dozen actresses and all other actors from the film . you can view trivia about each comedy ' s dirtiest dozen actor on this list , such as when and where they were born . to find out more about a particular actor or actress , click on their name and you ' ll be taken to a page with even more details about their acting career . the cast members of comedy ' s dirtiest dozen have been in many other movies , so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .

comedy ' s dirtiest dozen : this classic comedy concert film launched the careers of tim allen , chris rock and jackie the joke man martling . it also features the definitive performance of . . . see full summary »

comedy ' s dirtiest dozen / heavyweights of comedy review this is by far the funnist comedy tape of all time . comedy ' s dirtiest dozen / heavyweights of comedy dvd for sale you can experience the beginnings of the great careers of tim allen and chris rock , along with other well know comedians . comedy ' s dirtiest dozen / heavyweights of comedy movie i personally have had a copy of this since 1991 and have worn out the tape , which is why i came here to buty the dvd . comedy ' s dirtiest dozen / heavyweights of comedy video there isn ' t anyone on this tape that isn ' t hilarious . i ' ve seen everyone on this tape in other shows and movies that i didn ' t even know who thet were before or wouldn ' t have known who they were if it weren ' t for this taps . i ' d pay double the price for this than they are charging here !

this double - feature dvd includes two hilarious comedy films . comedy ' s dirtiest dozen features tim allen , chris rock , jackie the jokeman martling , otto & george , stephanie hodge , monty hoffman and many others ! heavyweights was shot on the same weekend as comedy ' s dirtiest dozen and features 8 of the heaviest and funniest comedians ever such as bob woods marci rose , billy elmer , tim o ' rourke , queen kong and more !

a must have to add to any comedy collection . this classic is a great asset to any comedy lover , and a good source of comedy in it best form : uncensored .

here ' s a not - so - shining example of why stand - up comedy rarely works onscreen .

in 1998 to celebrate its ten year aniversay , plans to shoot comedies dirtiest dozen ii or the new dirtiest dozen fell through after no interest from financial backers could be found willing to invest . it was rumored that john " dr . dirty " valby was set to host .

filmed at new york ' s minetta lane theater , comedy ' s dirtiest dozen presents snippets of the x - rated acts of 12 stand up comics . included are routines by tim allen , chris rock , jackie the jokeman martling , and others including ben creed , thea vidale , and john fox .

one of bill ' s greatest sets ever , from the film , " comedy ' s dirtiest dozen " . other versions of this have been uploaded , but have poor video or sound . this is direct from the dvd , by d3k films . this is for bill hicks fans everywhere . let ' s hope they re - release this film on blu - ray someday .

comedy ' s dirtiest dozen : this classic comedy concert film launched the careers of tim allen , chris rock and jackie the joke man martling . it also features the definitive performance of legendary bill hicks . the heavyweights of comedy : " fat is where it ' s at ! " this heavy film was shot on the same weekend as comedy ' s dirtiest dozen . it features 8 of the heaviest and funniest comedians ever . among these comedians are some rare jewels , including bob woods who died in 1990 . woods ' comic impression of jackie gleason is considered among comedians as the definitive gleason impersonation of all time . you will also recognize tim o ' rourke as the bartender from the " drew carey show " and thea vidale who had her tv series , " thea " . this uncensored , no holds barred comedy film ends in a comic feast so large that even the chairs could not hold them .

comedy ' s dirtiest dozen presents snippets of the x - rated acts of a dozen stand - up comedians , filmed live on an evening in 1988 at new york ' s minetta lane theater . tim allen and chris rock have since gone on to fame and fortune in tv and movies , and jackie the jokeman martling is a member of radio star howard stern ' s troupe . the other performers , including ben creed , thea vidale , and john fox , are likely to be unfamiliar to all but a handful of viewers . the film ' s producers maintain that these performers are legends on the regional comedy club circuit , but that the " adult " content of their material keeps them off cable comedy and talk shows . based on what we see of their routines , it ' s obvious why . not only is the humor almost entirely about sex , much of it seems intentionally calculated to offend . it should be reported that the audience eats it up . the film only has an 88 minute running time , so the comics rotate on and off stage at a rapid clip .

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i purchased this dvd as a gift for my husband . it was great ! the jokes were solid , and as an added bonus , you also got to laugh at thea vitale ' s hair and chris rock ' s goofy pants . gotta love the 80 ' s . . .

i rented this dvd because i am a big bill hicks fan . i figured if hes on it , it can ' t be that bad . i watched the whole thing , and it was awful . seeing tim allen was kind of fun , but the rest , besides bill hicks where very bad . seriously , if your a bill hicks fan interested in this dvd , don ' t bother he just does about 10 - 15 minutes of stand up . the only thing worse than " comedy ' s dirtiest dozen " was the " heavy weights of comedy " part . this was just some obese men and women coming out and making fat jokes about themselves . this was awful , don ' t bother .

you all talk about bill hicks . yeah , he ' s great , but what about otto & george ? the best on the show !

he ' s the best comedian ever . better than so many of his other contemporaries . i enjoyed the other acts as well . i just wish they had more like this video .

this is actually a great dvd . you actually get a chance to see some of out more famous comedians in action back when they were almost unknown . the highlight of this dvd , for me anyway and hopefully others , was that this is one of the very few chances you get to see the late , great bill hicks on camera . for fans of his cd ' s , it ' s worth the money just to see him on film . definitely worth it .

this is a really bad dvd . none of the comedians set the place alight at all . tim allen ' s performance is the pick of the bunch , even though it wasn ' t that good either . i found chris rock ' s material to be very weak for a guy that i consider to be the funniest comedian of all time . he has surely come a long way . bill hicks is his usual animated and unfunny self . this was a waste of time and money .

i rented this solely because of tim allen , chris rock , and bill hicks , and as i expected , they were the highlights of the movie . the title doesn ' t lie - - these 12 performers really are comedy ' s dirtiest . the humor is vulgar , shocking , and totally filthy , but only these three know how to do it right . it also says a lot about the overall quality of this movie that they are the only ones who have anything original to say . the rest of them are all from the school of comedy that teaches if you can ' t think of anything creative , a bunch of anal sex jokes will do . personally , i thought tim allen gave the very best performance . he is uproariously funny , and it is hard to believe that he went from doing this to fluff like " home improvement " ( a good show , but not anything like his early standup ) . he is the only one who actually had me laughing out loud . chris rock is also good ( not great ) . he is very young here , but he already has his " born suspect " act nailed . he is pretty good for an up - and - coming comedian , and any fan of his should rent this movie immediately . and , of course , there ' s bill hicks , who outshines everyone else by far ( allen made me laugh the hardest , but bill still has the better act ) . how they can include a genius like hicks with the likes of stephanie hodge is beyond me . he was one hell of a comedian , and almost makes it worth it to buy this . almost . 5 / 10 stars . watch it for the guys you know .

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