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  2. Thirteen Women was not called a horror film upon its release in 1932, but as David Skal writes, the term “horror movie” was “in many ways an invention of 1931,” the year Dracula and Frankenstein were released (144).

  3. 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.

  4. Thirteen Women was not called a horror film upon its release in 1932, but as David Skal writes, the term “horror movie” was “in many ways an invention of 1931,” the year Dracula and Frankenstein were released (144).

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  5. Thirteen Women may have the dubious distinction of being infamous 'suicide starlet' Peg Entwhistle's one and only film credit before she leapt from the Hollywood sign, but there is a lot more to it than that.

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    Suicide and on-screen murder aplenty.
    Guy who attempts to both poison and blow up a child but doesn’t get caught.
    Divorced women and single moms, happy to be without men– or so they say.
    In fact, all of the men are pretty damn stupid in this movie.
    “Do you remember how you always worried that the men would go too far and I worried that they wouldn’t?”
    The racial politics of this one are a tad egregious.

    There is a very distinct pleasure in watching Myrna Loy level her eyes at the camera and promise to break Irene Dunne. I won’t pretend it’s a vaguely wholesome pleasure, but it’s safe to say that Thirteen Women is anything but wholesome. Based on a novel– RKO even has the opening credits over a facsimile of a book being paged through– Thirteen Wome...

    The current available version runs 59 minutes. From what I can tell, it was trimmed down before release, which creates one interesting problem: the film mentions several times that there are 12 wom...

    This film is available on DVD to purchase or to stream on Amazon.
  6. Thirteen Women: Directed by George Archainbaud. With Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond, Myrna Loy. A young woman plots astrological revenge on schoolgirls from her past.

  7. Jun 23, 2024 · Thirteen Women, one of the earliest influences on the slasher genre, was the only movie Peg Entwistle was in before jumping from the Hollywood sign. There is a sad backstory to one of the...

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