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Director:
Ranald MacDougall
Writers:
Edna L. Lee (novel)
Ranald MacDougall (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
7 November 1955 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
She's so excitingly good . . . when she's so wonderfully bad!
Plot:
Eva Phillips is a Southern socialite whose manipulation and ruthlessness ruins the lives of everyone around her... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. more
User Comments:
Oh MY God! more

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Joan Crawford ... Eva Phillips
Barry Sullivan ... Avery 'Beauty' Phillips
Betsy Palmer ... Carol Lee Phillips
John Ireland ... Judson Prentiss
Lucy Marlow ... Jennifer Stewart
William Leslie ... Ty McKinnon
Fay Wray ... Sue McKinnon
Katherine Anderson ... Miss Breen
Tim Hovey ... Ted Phillips
Linda Bennett ... Trissa Phillips
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Additional Details

Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Christina Crawford, Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, recounted in her autobiography "Mommy Dearest" that she had to leave the theater midway through a showing of this film because it was too true-to-life in her mother's portrayal of the main character. more
Quotes:
[last lines]
Avery 'Beauty' Phillips: The sun is shinin'; funny, I didn't expect the sun to be shinin'.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002) (TV) more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Oh MY God!, 4 February 2007
10/10
Author: thedavid01 from San Francisco, California

From frame one, she is EVIL! I totally cracked up because everyone else is dressed and lit adequately,but in each shot, each frig-gin' shot, Joan is in fantastic gowns, jewels, lit fabulously and with just that HINT of gauze, Vaseline over the lens. Same year as Female on the Beach. Go Joan! She chews through scenery like a wood chipper. However her character, originally from Chicago, is intimidated by a southern family..I don't think so. I realized she is the prototype of characters like Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction". The scene where she dares her husband to divorce her is shark-like.Glamorous from start to finish.And poor Betsy Palmer....

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