L'impudique

Original title: Hilda Crane

1956
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1h 27m

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Twice divorced Hilda Crane, feeling she's run out of chances, returns to her mother's house in her small hometown and tries to decide what to do next while still hoping to hold onto her inde... Read allTwice divorced Hilda Crane, feeling she's run out of chances, returns to her mother's house in her small hometown and tries to decide what to do next while still hoping to hold onto her independence. That proves to be a challenge.Twice divorced Hilda Crane, feeling she's run out of chances, returns to her mother's house in her small hometown and tries to decide what to do next while still hoping to hold onto her independence. That proves to be a challenge.

Director
- Philip Dunne
Writers
- Samson Raphaelson
- Philip Dunne
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6.3/10

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Director
- Philip Dunne
Writers
- Samson Raphaelson
- Philip Dunne
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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In September 1955, the play was among six properties that 20th Century Fox purchased from the Charles K. Feldman Group (the others included "The Wayward Bus," "Lonely Steeple," "Tender Mercy," "Bernardine" and "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison"). Two months later, 20th Century Fox announced that it had purchased the film rights and that the movie would be written and directed by Philip Dunne with Susan Hayward starring. The film was produced by Herbert B. Swope Jr., his first film since coming from the television industry. In December, the role went to Jean Simmons, of whom Dunne wrote three previous 20th Century Fox epic films she starred in, La tunique (1953), Les gladiateurs (1954) and L'égyptien (1954) and was only offered the title role as compensation for turning down Marilyn Monroe's role in 7 ans de réflexion (1955), also produced by Feldman.

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Referenced in Myra Breckinridge (1970)

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6/10

The Bride Wore Yellow

If there were a variant on the Bechdel Test that involved a film containing a scene in which two women are engaged in a conversion and one of them is incessantly talking about herself - and particularly about her feelings - 'Hilda Crane' would pass such a test with flying colours.

Despite both male leads being of the Alpha variety, the real action derives from the interaction of the women of the piece; especially the conflict between sweet Jean Simmons (suffering in the lap of luxury while draped in furs in the sort of role you'd normally expect to see Joan Crawford) and grotesque matriarch Evelyn Varden.