Harriet Craig (1950) |
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| Director(s) | Vincent Sherman |
| Producer(s) | William Dozier |
| Top Genres | Drama |
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Joan Crawford
(as Harriet Craig)
Wendell Corey
(as Walter Craig)
Lucile Watson
(as Celia Fenwick)
Ellen Corby
(as Lottie)
Virginia Brissac
(as Mother of Harriet Crai...)
Kathryn Card
(as Mrs. Norwood)
Harriet Craig Overview:
Harriet Craig (1950) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by Vincent Sherman and produced by William Dozier.
Harriet Craig BlogHub Articles:
Joan Crawford: Possessed, The Damned Don’t Cry, Harriet Craig
In our ongoing exploration of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’s filmographies, here are three more films building on Crawford’s renewed critical success in the 1940s after Mildred Pierce (1945) and Humoresque (1946). Possessed opens with Joan Crawford wandering the city streets past cable... Read full article
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Harriet Craig Quotes:
Harriet Craig:
No man's born ready for marriage; he has to be trained.
Walter Craig:
Wives may be a little extra trouble now and then, but they're mighty handy gadgets to have around the house.
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In this film, Harriet recounts to several people her negative experiences having to work in a laundry in her youth. In her own life, Joan Crawford also had to work in a laundry in her youth because of her family's poverty, and hated it. Crawford's adopted daughter Christina theorized that this hatred led to the famous "wire hangers" incident described by her in 'Mommie Dearest.'
The original Broadway play "Craig's Wife' by George Kelly opened on October 12, 1925 at the Morosco Theater, ran for 360 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1926 and is the screenplay source for this film.