Harriet Craig

Infobox Film | name =Harriet Craig


caption = VHS cover
director = Vincent Sherman
producer = William Dozer
writer = Play:
George Kelly
Screenplay:
Anne Froelich
James Gunn
starring =Joan Crawford
Wendell Corey
music = George Duning
Morris Stoloff
cinematography = Joseph Walker
editing = Viola Lawrence
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|USA 2 November 1950
runtime = 94 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0042544

"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.

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 [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018800/ IMD Craig's Wife 1928] , and the second in 1936, directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Rosalind Russell [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027474/ IMD Craig's Wife 1936] ] .

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." [Quirk, Lawrence J.. "The Films of Joan Crawford". The Citadel Press, 1968.]

ee also

*Joan Crawford filmography
*TCM [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=27784 Harriet Craig (1950)]

References

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name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group1 = 1940-1949
list1 = nowrap| "Strange Cargo" (1940) • nowrap| "Susan and God" (1940) • nowrap| "A Woman's Face" (1941) • nowrap| "When Ladies Meet" (1941) • nowrap| "They All Kissed the Bride" (1942) • nowrap| "Reunion in France" (1942) • nowrap| "Above Suspicion" (1943) • nowrap| "Hollywood Canteen" (1944) • nowrap| "Mildred Pierce" (1945) • nowrap| "Humoresque" (1946) • nowrap| "Possessed" (1947) • nowrap| "Daisy Kenyon" (1947) • nowrap| "Flamingo Road" (1949) • nowrap| "It's a Great Feeling" (1949)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group2 = 1950-1959
list2 = nowrap| "The Damned Don't Cry!" (1950) • nowrap| "Harriet Craig" (1950) • nowrap| "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1951) • nowrap| "This Woman is Dangerous" (1952) • nowrap| "Sudden Fear" (1952) • nowrap| "Torch Song" (1953) • nowrap| "Johnny Guitar" (1954) • nowrap| "Female on the Beach" (1955) • nowrap| "Queen Bee" (1955) • nowrap| "Autumn Leaves" (1956) • nowrap| "The Story of Esther Costello" (1957) • nowrap| "The Best of Everything" (1959)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group3 = 1960-1969
list3 = nowrap| "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) • nowrap| "The Caretakers" (1963) • nowrap| "Strait-Jacket" (1964) • nowrap| "I Saw What You Did" (1965) • nowrap| "Berserk!" (1967)
group4 = 1970
list4 = nowrap| "Trog" (1970)