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Carrie Overview:

Carrie (1952) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by William Wyler and produced by William Wyler and Lester Koenig.

SYNOPSIS

A sterling performance by Olivier is the centerpiece of this drama based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. When a farm girl follows her dreams to turn-of-the-century Chicago, she enters a bleak world of grueling, poorly paid factory work. Determined to better her condition, she attaches herself to a salesman and then to a married restaurant manager, who loses everything in order to keep her. As she ascends to success in the footlights, she leaves behind the man who rescued her.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Academy Awards 1952 --- Ceremony Number 25 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson; Set Decoration: Emile KuriNominated
Best Costume DesignEdith HeadNominated
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Carrie BlogHub Articles:

Orphaning Carrie Killed And Just Like That

By Judy on Feb 17, 2022 From Cary Grant Won't Eat You

Sex and the City had this odd way of pretending its heroines were parentless. Sure, there was a reference or two, and that lovely episode about Miranda dealing with her mother’s death. But overall, the show just pretended the women had no moms or dads. For six seasons and two movies, the lack of p... Read full article

Orphaning Carrie Killed And Just Like That

By Judy on Feb 17, 2022 From Cary Grant Won't Eat You

Sex and the City had this odd way of pretending its heroines were parentless. Sure, there was a reference or two, and that lovely episode about Miranda dealing with her mother’s death. But overall, the show just pretended the women had no moms or dads. For six seasons and two movies, the lack of p... Read full article

Review--Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

By KC on Jan 13, 2017 From Classic Movies

I first heard of Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds when a local theater invited me to a free screening of the documentary in mid-December. Though I was not able to attend, the film is now showing on HBO and available on the channel's streaming service. Now that I have seen it... Read full article

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher

By Carol Martinheira on Dec 29, 2016 From The Old Hollywood Garden

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher On December 29, 2016 By CarolIn Uncategorized... Read full article

Music Review : Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (2015)

By Michael on May 8, 2015 From Le Mot du Cinephiliaque

Music Review : Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell (2015, Asthmatic Kitty) Carrie & Lowell is my first experience with singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens and I must say his acoustic indie rock hooked me at the first listen. The melancholy and sadness of this record reminded me how the fi... Read full article

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Carrie Quotes:

George Hurstwood: I've gambled on your loving me. If you don't, Carrie, you must get off
[the train]
George Hurstwood: now.... But, if you do... If you do love me...
George Hurstwood: You still have time, Carrie. Move on now. Find someone... to love. It's a great experience, Carrie.
Carrie Meeber: When you're poor, it gets all mixed up. You like the people who are good to you.
Carrie Meeber: I should have waited until I met you. But I didn't, and now I'm not free.
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Carrie Facts
In 1937, Warner Brothers owned the movie rights to Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie", but Joseph Breen at the Hays Office prohibited the studio from producing a faithful version of the novel. A copy of the letter is available on the University of Pennsylvania's website.
Though based on Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie," the movie was released simply as "Carrie" because the studio feared audiences would think "Sister Carrie" was the story of a nun.
Laurence Olivier accepted the part of George Hurstwood so he could be in Hollywood at the same time that his emotionally troubled wife Vivien Leigh was making A Streetcar Named Desire so that he could look after her.
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