{"id":6504,"date":"2012-11-20T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=6504"},"modified":"2012-11-20T23:00:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T03:00:23","slug":"a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-clip-joint-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2012\/11\/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-clip-joint-girls.html","title":{"rendered":"A Vindication of the Rights of Clip-Joint Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Recently watched \u201cMarked Woman,\u201d an early Bette Davis\/Humphrey Bogart flick in which Davis is a nightclub hostess who tries to go up against the toughest gangster in town after he kills her sister. Bogart is the crusading, by which I mean lecturing, DA. It\u2019s actually a startlingly powerful film, largely because it takes everything about the clip-joint girls\u2019 lives so seriously: their friendships, their families, their courage, their distinctive personalities. It\u2019s about the compromises they made to get by or to help their families, and then it\u2019s about the terrible moment when all of their compromises fail them and their backs are pushed against the wall.<\/p>\n

Davis\u2019s character could have come across like one of today\u2019s infuriating smartmouthed YA heroines, all self-righteous backchat, but instead you really come to love her as she progresses from naive cynicism to brokenhearted heroism. All of her decisions result in her humiliation, and yet she perseveres. Bogart isn\u2019t a villain, but he does come off as clueless and smarmy: At one point he says that they both grew up in tough situations, but the difference is that he (I forget how he phrased it) played by the rules. After everything we\u2019ve already seen, I think the natural audience response is to think, \u201cWell, and also the difference is that you\u2019re a man.\u201d In the final shot we stand completely with the hostesses, against gangsters, Good People<\/a>, and even the well-meaning reformist types like Bogart\u2019s DA. The movie\u2019s ending is sad, lonely, much more bitter than sweet\u2013and yet still cuter than real life.<\/p>\n

Neither Davis nor Bogart are at their very best, but they\u2019re always good (Davis is luminous even when she could come across as shrill), and this is a terrific script. And the clothes are noticeably fabulous, just sheer pleasure to watch; they\u2019re by Orry-Kelly. I don\u2019t know that I usually notice that stuff but it really leaps out at you here, and adds a luxuriant touch to a film with a low-rent heart.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently watched \u201cMarked Woman,\u201d an early Bette Davis\/Humphrey Bogart flick in which Davis is a nightclub hostess who tries to go up against the toughest gangster in town after he kills her sister. Bogart is the crusading, by which I mean lecturing, DA. 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