Jezebel

Time cover March 28, 1938

Characters:

• Bette Davis as Julie Marston (Academy Award)
  
• Henry Fonda as Preston Dillard
  
• George Brent as Buck Cantril
  
• Fay Bainter as Aunt Bell (Academy Award)
  
• Margaret Lindsay as Amy Bradford
  

Mis en Scene:

• set in antebellum New Orleans: "a genteel class of country squires who ruled a well-ordered, contented society devoted to an agrarian ideal and courtly pursuits." (Edward Campbell in The Celluloid South)
  
• southern city - street, bar, townhome
  
• bank meeting - Yankee, business
  
• Olympus Ball - red dress, not "a chalice, a frail delicate chalice to be cherished."
  
• Halcyon plantation
  

Readings:

• Campbell, Edward, The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth, (1981)
  
• Kirby, Jack, Media-Made Dixie, (1978, 1986)
• Bogle, Donald, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks, (1973, 1989 expanded edition)
  
• Cash, Wilbur, The Mind of the South, (1930)
  
• Woll, Allen and Randall Miller, Ethnic and Racial Images in American Film and Television: Historical Essays and Bibliography, (1987)
  
• Silk, Catherine and John Silk, Racism and Anti-Racism in American Popular Culture: Portrayals of African-Americans in Fiction and Film, (1980)
  

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title Jezebel
• This film is available in Copley Library as VC2634
• David Selznick's Gone With the Wind was released Dec. 15, 1939
• Classical Narrative Style and Movie Palaces
• Reserve articles include Bette Davis and Hollywood Moguls and Movies Production Cost List from List of Lists