A Woman Rebels


Cast Pamela Thistlewaite Thomas Lane Flora Thistlewaite Judge Thistlewaite Young Flora Alan Betty Bumble Gerald Piper Aunt Serena Young Girl Mr. White Lady Gaythorne Lady Rinlake Signor Grassi Signora Grassi Italian Boy Italian Bit Flora, Age 10 Flora, Age 5 Flora, As Infant Credits Director Producer Screenplay by Based on the novel Portrait of a Rebel by Director of Photography Art Direction by Associate Art Director Set Decorator Film Editing by Sound Recordist Musical Score Music Recorded by Orchestrator Musical Director Costume Design by Ballroom Dances by Makeup Artist Assistant Director	Name Katharine Hepburn Herbert Marshall Elizabeth Allan Donald Crisp Doris Dudley David Manners Lucile Watson Van Heflin Eily Malyon Margaret Seddon Molly Lamont Lionel Pape Constance Lupino Lillian Kemble-Cooper Nick Thompson Inez Palange Tony Romero Joe Mack Marilyn Knowleden Bonnie June McNamara Marilyn French Name Mark Sandrich Pandro S. Berman Anthony Veiller, Ernst Vajda Netta Syrett Robert De Grasse Van Nest Polglase Perry Ferguson Darrell Silvera Jane Loring George D. Ellis Roy Webb Clem Portman Maurice De Packh Nathaniel Shilkret Walter Plunkett Hermes Pan Mel Burns Dewey Starkey

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RKO Radio Pictures
88 minutes
Produced: June 30-August 27, 1936

Premiere: October 29, 1936

Synopsis

This is a story of a woman's struggle for emancipation during the Victorian period. Pamela Thislewaite fights against the strict conventions of the 1870s, a defiance which doesn't prove to be an easy or popular task. However, as a true rebel, she defies her autocratic father, Judge Thistlewaite; has an affair with Gerald, an amorous young man who leaves her with a child born out of wedlock; and refuses to marry Thomas Lane, a faithful suitor.

Critics' reviews

Time - 1936
"Marked by none of the vitality of its predecessors in Katharine Hepburn's Victorian series, A Woman Rebels is saved from complete mediocrity by her well-modulated performance and by the admirable feeling for background and atmosphere implicit in Mark Sandrich's direction."

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