"A WOMAN REBELS."
New Plaza Theatre,
Bringing together for the first time two of the screen's top-flight starsKatharine Hepburn arid Herbert Mar-shall—RKO-Radio": will present -at the New. Plaza Theatre tomorrow "A Woman Rebels," a moving drama of a young romantic, idealist in search of freedom and independence as against the restricting influences of the era into which she had been born. In contrast to the freedom enjoyed by the modern young woman, the story presents a, romantic and tragic tale of an intelligent young girl who dares to demand that she choose her own husband, that she be permitted to. emerge, from home unchaperoned," and that-she1 go to work, a thing which , no. lady had heretofore, done. Fogrepshrouded London, rural English estates, and the Italian Riviera furnish the background for the resultant drama. When he first came to Hollywood Herbert. Marshall made a list of ten feminine,stars with whom he hoped, he could make a picture,, and.as a climax he made Katharine Hepburn the tenth. And climax it was, for he is known to feel that ."A. Woman Rebels" is one of, the best pictures fie" has appeared in. And he has lots of company, in that belief. Also in. the .cast is .Doris Dudley, dynamic young Broadway actress, fresh from her, triumph, in the, legitimate theatre. :Other important roles are enacted by' Elizabeth Allan, Donald Crisp, and David. Manners.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 6
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