he Women behind “The Women” hit the Hub last night to premiere the $16 million, made-in-Mass. comedy starring Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith and Eva Mendes.

Sadly, none of the leading ladies led the parade on the red carpet. And we’re just sick about it.

But director/producer/screenwriter Diane English - who tried for 14 years to remake George Cukor’s 1939 hit with an all-women cast – and producer Victoria Pearman, the head of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger’s production company, made the special screening scene at the AMC Boston Common.

“Boston was really wonderful,” English told the Track.

And in a salute to movie-supporting House Speaker Sal DiMasi, the grateful Hollywood gal said, “The tax credit was great and the people were really supportive.”

The main Woman of “The Women,” who introduced the film last night by joking that “no men were harmed in the making of this movie,” told us before the screening that, “Boston was a perfect stand-in for New York City because it had it all.”

Well, well, isn’t that interesting!

Post-applause, the movie mob repaired to The Liberty Hotel where, BTW, the actresses and their fams bedded down while filming in Boston in the summer of 2007.

“The Liberty was great. The cast just loved it,” said the Emmy Award-winning English. “It was a brand-new hotel so everyone felt very pampered. And the cast hung around on the weekends, going to Red Sox [team stats] games and taking Duck Tours.”

Which they couldn’t do in New York!

During the local filming, cameras rolled in the Prudential Center, on Newbury Street, in the Fort Point Channel, at 33 Restaurant in the Back Bay, in a Newton neighborhood and at a private home in Dover.

However, some members of “The Women” ventured to New York to shoot scenes at Saks Fifth Avenue, a pivotal location for the film.

“The Women” opens nationwide Friday.