Romantic melodrama of New Orleans in the 1850s with spoiled wealthy Southern belle (Bette Davis) finding through bitter experience that life is not all sweetness and light and hers for the taking. Handsome young banker Henry Fonda and George Brent are the rivals for her affections, Fay Bainter her sympathetic aunt. 1


Vintage magazines

Visages et contes du cinéma 35 1939

Books with substantial mentioning of Jezebel

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Tony Thomas
The Complete Films of Henry Fonda
Secaucus, NJ, 1983

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Books with an entry on Jezebel

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001

Articles with substantial mentioning of Jezebel

Biljana Oklopcic, The Golden Age of Hollywood's Belles, Is Tomorrow, After All, Another Day?, in: Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, and Cynthia J. Miller (eds.), The American Civil War on film and TV, Lanham, Maryland, 2017