Daisy Kenyon (1947)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Otto Preminger

Writers:

David Hertz (writer)
Elizabeth Janeway (novel)

Release Date:

25 December 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Commercial artist Daisy Kenyon is involved with married lawyer Dan O'Mara, and hopes someday to marry him...

Plot Keywords:

Artist | Adultery | Cape Cod | Post War | Based On Novel

Cast

Joan Crawford	...	Daisy Kenyon
Dana Andrews	...	Dan O'Mara
Henry Fonda	...	Peter Lapham
Ruth Warrick	...	Lucille O'Mara
Martha Stewart	...	Mary Angelus
Peggy Ann Garner	...	Rosamund O'Mara
Connie Marshall	...	Marie O'Mara
Nicholas Joy	...	Coverly
Art Baker	...	Lucille's Attorney

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

Finland:S

Filming Locations:

20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Otto Preminger told an interviewer in the 1970s that he had no memory of this film.

Goofs:

Continuity: At the divorce trial, Dan still has the bad scrape on his forehead. Soon after, he's at the cape with Peter and Daisy and his forehead is all healed.

Quotes:

Daisy Kenyon: It's a funny thing about being in love. Sometimes it's easier to tell when you are than when you aren't.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)

A womans' movie where the men are not dopes

I liked this film a lot because it's a rare movie where Joan Crawford doesn't overshadow her male co-stars and here she is pitted up against two fine male actors who match her emotions and intelligence. Dana Andrews was never better stepping out from his usual good guy roles to play a heel with compassion. Mr Andrews acting is both subtle and emotinaly strong. Coming off his strong performance a year earlier in the Best Years of Our Lives he was clearly at his peak at this time. There is a lot going on in this film from suggestions of child abuse on the part of Ruth Warrick to an interesting spin on the theme of infidelity where the most sympathetic character is the "other" woman Daisy Kenyon. I can see why this role would have appealed to Ms. Crawford having played variotions on it in "The Women" and "Rain" among others throughout her career. She is the wise one here and it makes the movie very interesting for that reason. I won't say who wins her in the end but it leaves a nice smile on your face and you have a little laugh to boot.