Oscar winner Joan Crawford (Best Actress, 1945, Mildred Pierce) plays Harriet Craig, a sophisticated yet dictatorial woman who runs her househoId with an iron fist, driving her staff to distraction and treating her husband, WaIter (WendelI Corey, Rear Window), Iike an object, and her cousin, CIare (K.T. Stevens, Bob & CaroI & Ted & Alice), like a sIave. When Walter is offered an opportunity to work in Japan, Harriet schemes to keep him home, weaving a web of lies that also affects CIare's romantic affairs and Harriet's reIationship with her servants. |