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Female is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Dieterle released in USA on 11 november 1933 with Ruth Chatterton
Female (1933)
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Add to a movie listFemale is a 1933 Warner Bros. Pre-Code film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Ruth Chatterton and George Brent. It is based on the novel of the same name by Donald Henderson Clarke.
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Alison Drake (Ruth Chatterton) is the wealthy owner and hard-driving, no-nonsense head of a large automobile company, inherited from her father. Her work has caused her to lose her youthful romanticism, and she has casual affairs with men, including her own employees.Actors
Ruth Chatterton
(Alison Drake)
George Brent
(Jim Thorne)
Lois Wilson
(Harriet Brown, a school friend of Drake)
John Mack Brown
(George P. Cooper)
Humphrey Bogart
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