Craig's Wife vs Harriet Craig

Which do you prefer? State your case.

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by Anonymousreply 7June 12, 2019 7:01 PM

Craig's Wife is a well-made play. It filmed well, and Rosalind Russell was unusual in the role.

Harriet Craig is just camp.

by Anonymousreply 1June 12, 2019 5:10 PM

Ellen Corby: "She's not particular. She's peculiar!"

There's absolutely no camp in "Craig's Wife" even if it is a great film. Billie Burke doesn't have her bird brain in it.

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by Anonymousreply 2June 12, 2019 5:54 PM

Joan Crawford is such a cunt in Harriet Craig. And she treats her niece really horribly at one point. I love how much the maids of the house hate her. I watched it for the first time recently.

I haven't seen Craig's Wife.

by Anonymousreply 3June 12, 2019 6:30 PM

K.T. Stevens, who played Crawford's niece, went onto daytime infamy as Vanessa Prentiss, the veiled mother of Lance and Lucas, who hated Laurie so much she kept her apart from her sons for years and framed Laurie for her murder! She was also memorable as the blind moon queen in "Missile to the Moon" who is also quite sinister.

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by Anonymousreply 4June 12, 2019 6:50 PM

'Craig's Wife' was recently added to the Criterion Channel, which is what inspired the thread. I'd never seen it before, either.

The motivations seem a lot more fleshed out in 'Harriet Craig,' and Joan's performance is consistently cunty throughout. Roz Russell swings from ice queen to almost lovable at times.

by Anonymousreply 6June 12, 2019 6:53 PM

R5 "The Young and the Restless". She had already been on "GH" (original cast) and "Days", but "Y&R" was her longest soap part (5 years). She's also the young reporter who manipulates the elderly Barbara Stanwyck into an interview with in "The Great Man's Lady". Daughter of veteran director Sam Wood, once married to Hugh Marlowe.

by Anonymousreply 7June 12, 2019 7:01 PM

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