Domestic Film: The Children’s Hour
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021 @ 1:30 PM
Based on the sensational Broadway play by Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour takes place in a private school for young girls, where a spiteful student accuses the two women who run the school of having a lesbian relationship. Director William Wyler adapted the play twice on film, first in 1936, with the two women more acceptably fighting for the same man; and then more truthfully years later, with Shirley MacLaine and Audrey Hepburn in a “friendship” ruined by gossip and James Garner. (1961, cc, 108 minutes.)