Daisy Kenyon (1947)
1h 39m | PG-13
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.
Director: Otto Preminger
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Drama, Romance
Video: 720p
Cast
Joan Crawford
as Daisy Kenyon
Dana Andrews
as Dan O'Mara
Henry Fonda
as Peter Lapham
Ruth Warrick
as Lucille O'Mara
Martha Stewart
as Mary Angelus
Peggy Ann Garner
as Rosamund O'Mara
Reviews
Preminger was an excellent match for Joan Crawford, who's work I also adore, because he was pretty good, though not great, at the melodrama. This is a fine love triangle, and you root for Henry Fonda, even though every warm-blooded woman would pick Dana Andrews over him in a heartbeat. I found this in my 10-DVD Henry Fonda Collection, and it's a great set well worth purchasing. I'm not a huge fan of his work, but he's definitely done some great films and amassed a fine body of work. Preminger and Crawford are always solid for me, and they certainly don't disappoint in collaborating in this early work of his.