DAISY KENYON (FOX FILM NOIR)

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• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Drama; Film-Noir
• Plot: Film noir, a classic film style of the '40s and '50s is noted for its dark themes, stark camera angles, and high-contrast lighting. Comprising many of Hollywood's finest films, film noir tells realistic stories about crime, mystery, femmes fatales and moral conflict.; ; Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda deliver dazzling performances in this 'highly polished, slick triangle melodrama' (The FIlm Daily) based on the novel by Elizabeth Janeway, and directed by Otto Preminger!; ; Daisy Kenyon (Crawford) is a lovelorn commercial artist caught in a romantic triangle with two men — one she loves but cannot have and one whose love she cannot return. While in an emotionally draining affair with married attorne Dan O'Mara (Dana Andrews), who refuses to leave his wife, she meets returning army sergeant Peter Lapham (Henry Fonda) — a decent and gentle man — who instantly falls in love with her. Although she carries a torch for Dan, she knows Peter will give her the secure life she desires and she agrees to marry him. But when Dan divorces his wife, Daisy is suddenly torn between her obligations...and her passions.
• Cast: Joan Crawford; Dana Andrews; Henry Fonda; Ruth Warrick; Martha Stewart; Peggy Ann Garner; Connie Marshall; Nicholas Joy; Art Baker; Jimmy Ames; Monya Andre; Don Avalier; Griff Barnett; John Butler; Les Clark; Roger Cole; John Davidson; Jay Eaton; Franklyn Farnum; John Garfield; Victoria Horne; Mauritz Hugo; Robert Karnes; Norman Leavitt; Leonard Lyons; Mae Marsh; Marion Marshall; Charles Meredith; Robert Neury; William H. O'Brien; Roy Roberts; Damon Runyon; Jeffrey Sayre; Ann Staunton; George E. Stone; Tito Vuolo; Walter Winchell; Otto Preminger; David Hertz; Elizabeth Janeway
• Director: Otto Preminger
• Runtime: 1:39
• Company: 20th Century Fox
• Media Format: Movie