One of my favorite movies, ever, ever, ever is The Women (1939). It has an all-female cast; even the animals and statues are female. The costuming and dialogue are delicious, delicious, just pure Hollywood glamour. If you watch it, turn the closed captioning on; the dialogue is so fast and snappy, you'll miss half of it.

I was thinking about this movie because it contains one of the best insults ever. In 1939, of course they couldn't say stuff like "motherfucker" and "asshole". They had to be creative.

The insult comes at the end of the movie. After all of her scheming and manipulation, man-stealer/social climber Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) realizes she's lost the game. "Well, girls," she says, "I guess it's back to the perfume counter for me." As she exits, she pauses at the door and says over her shoulder, "By the way, there's a name for you ladies, but it isn't used in high society. Outside of a kennel."

Brilliant.