The Devil in Miss Jones opens as Justine Jones, a lonely virgin spinster, is driven to suicide through sheer sexual frustration. The fact that she's taken her own life means that she's forever stranded in limbo. She can't get to heaven, but she hasn't sinned enough to make it to hell. So the powers that be give her a chance to live her life again - this time with permission to indulge her lustful desires. The rest of the film follows Miss Jones on her voyage of erotic discovery. Devil in Miss Jones is a true classic. Justine Jones, a spinster in her early thirties takes her life-not because of anything that happened to her but rather because nothing ever happened to her.
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Inspired by The Farewell director Lulu Wang 's call to action at the Independent Spirit Awards, we celebrate women filmmakers working in their field. Watch the video. Title: The Devil and Miss Jones During the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two. A wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off the roof of a building; it lands on the head of a stenographer, leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions. An escaped prisoner and a stuffy law professor vie for the hand of a spirited schoolteacher. A wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex-husband's non-payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation. In Purgatory, Justine Jones is given one day to explore one sin to the fullest. She chooses lust A chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver.
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Directed by Sam Wood from a screenplay by Norman Krasna , the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross Jean Arthur's husband. The film was well received by critics upon its release and garnered Oscar nominations for Coburn and Krasna. Cantankerous tycoon John P.
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