Harriet Craig

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Harriet Craig
Directed by Vincent Sherman
Produced by William Dozer
Starring Joan Crawford
Music by George Duning & Morris Stoloff
Cinematography Joseph Walker
Editing by Viola Lawrence
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) November 2 1950 (U.S. premiere)
Running time 94 min
Language English
IMDb profile

Harriet Craig is a 1950 drama film about domineering Harriet Craig who holds more regard for her home and its possessions than she does for any person in her life. Among those she treats like household objects are her kind husband Walter, whom she has lied to about her inability to have children; her cousin Claire, whom she treats like a secretary; and her servants whom she treats like slaves.

Joan Crawford was the perfect choice to play the title role. She was famous for her obsession with everything being clean. Director Vincent Sherman later told an interviewer that was the was Crawford read was the perfect way to live.

The movie was based on the play Craig's Wife by George Kelly, and a remake of 2 earlier movies titled Craig's Wife: the first in 1928, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; the second in 1936, directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Rosalind Russell.

Released on VHS on 2/20/96.

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