Harriet Craig
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| Harriet Craig | |
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| Directed by | Vincent Sherman |
| Produced by | William Dozer |
| Starring | Joan Crawford Wendell Corey Lucile Watson Allyn Joslyn |
| 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 |
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Harriet Craig (1950) is a 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 because of Crawford's comments about the script and that what she had read was the perfect way to live.
The movie was based on the play Craig's Wife by George Kelly, and a remake of two earlier movies titled Craig's Wife, the first in 1928, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and the second in 1936, directed by Dorothy Arzner and starring Rosalind Russell.
Released on VHS on 2/20/96.
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