The more things change… Director George Cukor adapted Clare Boothe Luce’s play into the original Mean Girls, albeit set amidst privileged wives – complete with diet crazes and personal trainers – rather than high schoolers. Among the “friends” who go at each other’s throats (and husbands) are Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine and – with “eyes that run up and down men like a searchlight” – Joan Crawford. There isn’t a man to be found in the entire thing, probably because he’d be promptly eaten alive.
