Jezebel

The South's Greatest Romance.

New Orleans, 1952. Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) and her fiancé, Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda), have a stormy relationship. He won’t go with her--as promised--to collect her decorous white dress for the Olympus ball. Instead--in revenge--she chooses a flamboyant red dress. Pres is dismayed and, at the ball, New Orleans’s high society is outraged. Julie and Pres argue, and he leaves.

A year passes. New Orleans is stricken by yellow fever. Julie hears Pres has returned. Delighted, she throws a party. But, when Pres arrives, Amy (Margaret Lindsay) is with him, and they are married...