Bette Davis

Henry Fonda

George Brent

Margaret Lindsay

Donald Crisp

Fay Bainter

Richard Cromwell

Henry O'Neill

Spring Byington

John Litel

Irving Pichel

Theresa Harris

Janet Shaw

Margaret Early

Lou Payton

Gordon Oliver

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Matthew Beard

Georges Renavent

Mary Field

Amzie Strickland

Trevor Bardette

Al Bridge

Maurice Brierre

Jack Norton

Tony Paton

Daisy Bufford

Frederick Burton

Edward McWade

Georgia Caine

Davison Clark

Ann Codee

Frank Darien

Suzanne Dulier

Jack George

Jesse Graves

George Guhl

John Harron

Stuart Holmes

Philip Hurlic

Fred Lawrence

Sam McDaniel

Louis Mercier

George Sorel

Charles Middleton

Cliff Saum

Jacques Vanaire

Charles Wagenheim

Abem Finkel

William Wyler

Clements Ripley

Max Steiner

Robert Buckner

Owen Davis

John Huston

Hal B. Wallis

Ernest Haller

Warren Low

Orry-Kelly

Robert M. Haas

Margaret Donovan

Hal Lierley

Dalton S. Reymond

Robert Fellows

Fred M. MacLean

Henry Blanke

Leo F. Forbstein

Sally Sage

Arthur Lueker

Robert B. Lee

Audrey Scott

Al Roberts

Louis F. Edelman

Hugo Friedhofer

Karl Herlinger

Stanley Young

Drama

Romance

Jezebel

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

This starts off really strongly with the arrival, on horseback, of the feisty "Miss Julie" (Bette Davis). She is the rather proud orphaned daughter of a wealthy southern family whom everyone wants to know and be seen with - even if she is a bit of a pain in the neck. It's "Dill" (a rather charmless Henry Fonda) who is the front runner for her rather vain affections but he is no push-over. Her desire to inappropriately wear a red gown to a formal ball initially elicits his reluctant support as he escorts her, but then the ensuing fallout ensures he flees leaving her alone and determined - to get him back. The onset of the plague forces her to flee to their plantation and he ends up there too - but with a significant complication. With her normally ordered life all askew, "Miss Julie" has to think, perhaps for the first time, not just about herself. I'm afraid, though that this film was just bit too much of a soap for me. Though Davis has loads of beans at the outset, the story rather manoeuvres us into a rather predictably sentimental cul-de-sac that's slightly cluttered up by the rather obnoxiously cocky "Buck" (George Brent). Donald Crisp and Spring Byington provide a bit of ballast now and again, but I just found this all rather disappointingly flighty and thin. A frustrated love story, yes - but I just needed much more of our original "Jezebel" and less of what her character became. I saw this very recently on a big screen and it is still, despite my reservations, a fine example of thoroughly well presented and opulent cinema with a star who very much owns the screen.