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Jane Wyman builds a fashion empire while Charlton Heston tries to marry it away. Texas tea meets haute couture.

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Lucy Gallant (1955)

melodramaticoil-stained glamourpost-war proto-feminist

Overview

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Content warning

texas fashion designer fashion show fashion showroom women's fashion dressmaker misogyny evening gown fashion sexism+5 more

female independence vs. romantic compromisecapitalism as liberation and trapgendered power in business and marriagethe performative cost of success

Standout Aspects

Costume

Edith Head's parade of gowns that outshine the oil derricks

Acting

Jane Wyman's steel-boned determination in a girdle world

Production

Giant-era Texas sets that smell of money and dust

Best for:Solo: Sunday afternoon with wine and vintage fashion Pinterest boards·Friends: Girls' night screaming at Heston's controlling nonsense

Heads up:Triggers: Relentless 1950s paternalism played as romantic tension

Director

Robert Parrish

ReleasedOct 20, 1955

Runtime1h 44m

StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady

Intensitymedium

Tonemixed

Feelmedium

Pine-Thomas Productions

Top Cast

Jane Wyman

Lucy Gallant

Charlton Heston

Casey Cole

Claire Trevor

Lady MacBeth

Thelma Ritter

Molly Basserman

William Demarest

Charles Madden

Wallace Ford

Gus Basserman

Gloria Talbott

Laura Wilson

Tom Helmore

Jim Wardman

Edith Head

Edith Head

Roscoe Ates

Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

James Westerfield

Harry Wilson

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Cultural

Released the same year as Giant, this rode the wave of Texas-as-American-dream epics, but with a woman actually building something instead of inheriting it.

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