1955 NBC broadcasts a TV adaptation of The Women

On February 7, 1955,  NBC broadcasts a TV adaptation of The Women, originaly  a 1936 American play, a comedy of manners by Clare Boothe Luce.

Those elegant ladies above star in the TV adaptation. Grouped around Mary Boland (seated) as the countess and Nancy Olson as naive Peggy (on floor), are (standing, left to right) Paulette Goddard as the scheming Sylvia, Ruth Hussey as the wronged Mary, Cathleen Nesbitt as her mother, Mary Astor as Nancy the novelist, Shelley Winters as the husband-stealing Crystal and Valerie Bettis as the hair-poulling Miriam.