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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.
Original Release
09/16/1932
US Release
09/16/1932
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Irene Dunne | Laura Stanhope |
Ricardo Cortez | Police Sergeant Barry Clive |
Jill Esmond | Jo Turner |
Myrna Loy | Ursula Georgi |
Mary Duncan | June Raskob |
Kay Johnson | Helen Dawson Frye |
Florence Eldridge | Grace Coombs |
C. Henry Gordon | Swami Yogadachi |
Peg Entwistle | Hazel Clay Cousins |
Harriet Hagman | May Raskob |
Directors
Writers
Tiffany Thayer, Bartlett Cormack, Samuel Ornitz
Cast
Name | Character |
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Irene Dunne | Laura Stanhope |
Ricardo Cortez | Police Sergeant Barry Clive |
Jill Esmond | Jo Turner |
Myrna Loy | Ursula Georgi |
Mary Duncan | June Raskob |
Kay Johnson | Helen Dawson Frye |
Florence Eldridge | Grace Coombs |
C. Henry Gordon | Swami Yogadachi |
Peg Entwistle | Hazel Clay Cousins |
Harriet Hagman | May Raskob |
Edward Pawley | Chauffeur Burns / Burns |
Blanche Friderici | Miss Kirsten |
Wally Albright | Bobby Stanhope |
Leon Ames | Undetermined Role |
Phyllis Fraser | Twelfth Woman |
Betty Furness | Thirteenth Woman |
Julie Haydon | Mary |
Allen Pomeroy | Bit Part |
Violet Seton | Undetermined Role |
Buster Bartell | Trapeze Artist |
Producers
Name | Role |
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David O. Selznick | Executive Producer |