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The Museum of Modern Art For Immediate Release October 1992 GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS: WOMEN'S PICTURES AT WARNER BROS., 1932 - 1950 November 2 - 26, 1992 A survey of "women's pictures," one of the most oft-maligned genres during the heyday of the studio system -- and one of the most entertaining -- is presented at The Museum of Modern Art from November 2 through 26, 1992. Initially dismissed by critics, the fifteen films included in GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS: WOMEN'S PICTURES AT WARNER BROS., 1932 - 1950, were very popular during World War II when the moviegoing audience was predominantly female. The best examples of the genre -- such films as Now Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942), Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939), and The Man I Love (Raoul Walsh, 1946) -- explore some primal issues in American life in the 1930s and 1940s. In the tough-minded Warner Bros, style, these films touch upon the clash between independence and family, the quest for individual identity, and the need to make one's way in a man's world. Other highlights of the series include Female (Michael Curtiz, 1933), a comedy about a woman who runs an auto company and her love life with an iron hand; Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt, 1947), a study of a woman's decline brought on by mental problems, and The Hard Way (Vincent Sherman, 1942), a drama about a pushy Broadway "stage sister." The studio signed and developed such indelible stars as Joan Crawford, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan and, presiding over them all, the matchless Bette - more - 11 West 53 Street, New York, N.Y. 10019-5498 Tel: 212-708-9400 Cable: MODERNART Telex: 62370 MODART 2 Davis. Behind the scenes, there were first-rate, if overlooked, specialists in the genre, such as director Vincent Sherman, screenwriters Casey Robinson and Lenore Coffee, and producers Henry Blanke and Jerry Wald. GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS: WOMEN'S PICTURES AT WARNER BROS., 1932 - 1950 was organized by Stephen Harvey, associate curator, Department of Film. No. 65 For further information or film stills, contact Barbara Marshall, film press representative, Department of Public Information, 212/708-9752. .

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