TV Guide: Jezebel

Video: Jezebel - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:25:49 -0500

Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) learns that Preston (Henry Fonda), the great love of her life, is married in this scene from the 1938 film, Jezebel, directed by William Wyler.

Video: Jezebel - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:23 -0500

Bette Davis received her second Academy Award portraying a fiery Southern belle in Jezebel (1938).

Video: Jezebel - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:22 -0500

Independent southern belle Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) models ball gowns in this scene from the 1938 film, Jezebel, directed by William Wyler.

Video: Jezebel - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:21 -0500

Preston (Henry Fonda) & Julie (Bette Davis) arrive at the ball and create a scandal due to Julie's inappropriate scarlet dress in this scene from the 1938 film, Jezebel, directed by William Wyler.

Video: Jezebel - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:19 -0500

These are the main title credits from the 1938 film, Jezebel, directed by William Wyler and starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda.

Video: Jezebel (Preston comes to Julie's Bedroom)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:18 -0500

Preston (Henry Fonda) comes to the bedroom door of Julie (Bette Davis) to make peace with her after arguing in this scene from the 1938 film, Jezebel, directed by William Wyler.

Video: Jezebel

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:14:38 -0500

In 1938, Jezebel was widely regarded as Warner Bros.' compensation to Bette Davis for her losing the opportunity to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Resemblances between the two properties are inescapable: Jezebel heroine Julie Marsden (Davis) is a headstrong Southern belle not unlike Scarlett (Julie lives in New Orleans rather than Georgia); she loves fianc Preston Dillard (played by Henry Fonda) but loses him when she makes a public spectacle of herself (to provoke envy in him) by wearing an inappropriate red dress at a ball, just as Scarlett O'Hara brazenly danced with Rhett Butler while still garbed in widow's weeds. There are several other similarities between the works, but it is important to note that Jezebel is set in the 1850s, several years before Gone With the Wind's Civil War milieu; and we must observe that, unlike Scarlett O'Hara, Julie Marsden is humbled by her experiences and ends up giving of her time, energy, and health during a deadly yellow jack outbreak. Bette Davis won an Ac