Harriet Craig (1950)
What Was Harriet Craig's Lie?
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
- Date of release
- 1950-11-02
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (31)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Vincent Sherman
Casting
- Joan Crawford — Harriet Craig
- Wendell Corey — Walter Craig
- Lucile Watson — Celia Fenwick
- Allyn Joslyn — Billy Birkmire
- William Bishop — Wes Miller
- K.T. Stevens — Clare Raymond
- Viola Roache — Mrs. Harold
- Raymond Greenleaf — Henry Fenwick
- Ellen Corby — Lottie
- Virginia Brissac — Mother of Harriet Craig (Uncredited)
- Kathryn Card — Mrs. Norwood (Uncredited)
- Charles Evans — Mr. Winston (Uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Based on: Craig's Wife
Harriet Craig is a 1950 American drama film starring Joan Crawford. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn was based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1925 play Craig's Wife, by George Kelly. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman, produced by William Dozier, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Harriet Craig is the second of three cinematic collaborations between Sherman and Crawford, the others being The Damned Don't Cry (1950) and Goodbye, My Fancy (1951).
Production
The film was based on the 1925 play Craig's Wife by George Kelly. Two previous film versions were both entitled Craig's Wife, the first a 1928 silent film directed by William C. DeMille (Cecil B. DeMille's brother), and the second a 1936 film directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Rosalind Russell.
The film's working title was The Lady of the House.
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