Daisy Kenyon

""I DON'T BELONG TO ANY MAN"!"

Dec 25 1947 Approved 1h 39m
Drama, Romance

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

Plot

Daisy Kenyon (Joan Crawford) is a commercial artist living in New York City and having a 'back street' affair with a married lawyer, Dan O'Mara (Dana Andrews), whom she hopes to marry as soon as he divorces his nagging wife Lucille (Ruth Warrick). Meanwhile, she meets a returning world-war-two veteran, Peter Lapham (Henry Fonda), a nice and decent man, whom she marries. Dan gets his divorce and then tries to persuade Daisy to leave her loving husband.

Written by

David Hertz, Elizabeth Janeway

Directed by

Otto Preminger

Cast

Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Languages

English

Awards

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