Women Must Dress is a 1935 American

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film directed by

Reginald Barker Reginald C. Barker (April 2, 1886 – February 23, 1945) was a pioneer film director. Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Barker's family moved to Scotland when he was an infant and then to the United States. Living in California, ...

and starring

Minna Gombell Minna Marie Gombell (''née'' Gombel; May 28, 1892 – April 14, 1973) was an American stage and film actress. Early years She was born Minna Marie Gombel in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of William and Emma M. Debring Gombel. Her father ...

and Gavin Gordon. It was produced and co-written by the former silent film actress

Dorothy Davenport Fannie Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer. Born into a family of film performers, Davenport had her own independent career before her marriage to the film a ...

, who had been working as a producer since the death of her husband Wallace Reid in 1923. The film was a rare leading role for Gombell, and marked the film debut of Jon Hall, albeit under his birth name Charles Locher.

Premise

Linda Howard discovers that her husband is having an affair and takes their young adult daughter Janet away to start a new life. Linda becomes a successful fashion designer but begins to re-examine her own life choices when Janet forsakes her successful-but-bland doctor boyfriend for a faster, more loose set of companions.

Production

Production likely began in October, 1934. The cast list included, according to ''The Hollywood Filmograph'', "winners of the Monogram Agfa Amsco contest." Filming took ten days on a budget of around $75,000.Hills, Beverly. "Fun, Footwork, Finery." .Liberty: A Weekly for Everybody. 5 January 1935. page 43. Accessed 11 February 2021.

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1935 films American black-and-white films 1930s romantic comedy-drama films Monogram Pictures films 1930s English-language films Films about fashion Films directed by Reginald Barker American romantic comedy-drama films 1935 comedy films 1935 drama films 1930s American films {{1930s-romantic-comedy-film-stub