Harriet Craig


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Harriet Craig

VHS cover
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Produced by William Dozer
Written by Play:
George Kelly
Screenplay:
Anne Froelich
James Gunn
Starring Joan Crawford
Wendell Corey
Music by George Duning
Morris Stoloff
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Editing by Viola Lawrence
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of the United States 2 November 1950
Running time 94 min.
Country  United States
Language English

Harriet Craig (1950) is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford in a tale of an insensitive woman attached to her house and its furnishings. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn was based upon a play by George Kelly. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by William Dozer. Harriet Craig is the second of three cinematic collaborations between Sherman and Crawford. The film has been released to VHS.

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Plot and cast

Neurotic perfectionist and 'queen of clean' Harriet Craig (Joan Crawford) makes life miserable for everyone around her, especially her likeable husband Walter (Wendell Corey). When it appears he will receive a work assignment that will interfere with her status quo, she undermines the plans and later succeeds in keeping his best friend Billy Birkmire (Allyn Joslyn) from the house. When her young cousin Clare (K. T. Stevens) falls in love with Wes Miller (William Bishop), Harriet puts an end to the romance for her own inexplicable reasons. Eventually, her husband gains intimations of his wife's real nature. He smashes her favorite vase and walks out, leaving Harriet to her one true love - her perfect house.



Production notes

The movie was based on the play Craig's Wife by George Kelly, and two earlier film versions titled Craig's Wife, the first in 1928, directed by Cecil B. DeMille [1], and the second in 1936, directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Rosalind Russell [2].

Reception

Variety commented, "Joan Crawford does a prime job of putting over the selfish title-character" and Otis Guernsey of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "[Crawford] remains, as always, a stylish performer in her clear and forceful characterization."[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ IMD Craig's Wife 1928
  2. ^ IMD Craig's Wife 1936
  3. ^ Quirk, Lawrence J.. The Films of Joan Crawford. The Citadel Press, 1968.
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The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
1940-1949
Strange Cargo (1940) • Susan and God (1940) • A Woman's Face (1941) • When Ladies Meet (1941) • They All Kissed the Bride (1942) • Reunion in France (1942) • Above Suspicion (1943) • Hollywood Canteen (1944) • Mildred Pierce (1945) • Humoresque (1946) • Possessed (1947) • Daisy Kenyon (1947) • Flamingo Road (1949) • It's a Great Feeling (1949)
1950-1959
The Damned Don't Cry! (1950) • Harriet Craig (1950) • Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) • This Woman is Dangerous (1952) • Sudden Fear (1952) • Torch Song (1953) • Johnny Guitar (1954) • Female on the Beach (1955) • Queen Bee (1955) • Autumn Leaves (1956) • The Story of Esther Costello (1957) • The Best of Everything (1959)
1960-1969
1970
Trog (1970)






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