Queen Bee (film)

Infobox Film
name = Queen Bee


image_size =
caption = DVD cover
director = Ranald MacDougall
producer = Jerry Wald
writer = Novel:
Edna L. Lee
Screenplay:
Ranald MacDougall
narrator =
starring = Joan Crawford
John Ireland
Betsy Palmer
Barry Sullivan
music = Morris Stoloff
cinematography = Charles Lang
editing = Viola Lawrence
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = flagicon|USA 1955
runtime = 95 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:106966
imdb_id = 0048527

"Queen Bee" (1955) is a Columbia Pictures feature film starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Betsy Palmer, and Barry Sullivan in a story about a family dominated by a ruthless woman. The screenplay by Ranald MacDougall was based upon a novel by Edna Lee. The film was directed by Ranald MacDougall and produced by Jerry Wald. "Queen Bee" has been released to DVD.

Plot and cast

Ruthless Eva Phillips (Crawford) dominates her Georgia mansion and her husband Avery (Sullivan), an alcoholic mill owner who hates his wife. A cousin, Jennifer Stewart (Lucy Marlow), visits and watches in horror as Eva maneuvers to prevent the marriage of Avery's sister Carol (Palmer) to Judson Prentiss (Ireland). Judson was once Eva's lover, and, when Carol learns the truth, commits suicide. Jennifer and Avery are drawn together. When Eva senses the developing relationship, she increases her malevolences. Judson, guilty over Carol's death and determined to avenge it, takes Eva driving and deliberately crashes the car, killing them both. Jennifer and Avery are free to love each other. Cast includes Fay Wray, Olan Soule, and William Leslie.

Reception

Bosley Crowther of the "New York Times" noted, " [Miss Crawford] is the height of mellifluous meanness and frank insincerity." William K. Zinsser of the "New York Herald Tribune" wrote, "Miss Crawford plays her role with such silky villainy we long to see her dispatched." [Quirk, Lawrence J.. "The Films of Joan Crawford". The Citadel Press, 1968.]

ee also

* Joan Crawford filmography

References

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name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group1 = 1940-1949
list1 = nowrap| "Strange Cargo" (1940) • nowrap| "Susan and God" (1940) • nowrap| "A Woman's Face" (1941) • nowrap| "When Ladies Meet" (1941) • nowrap| "They All Kissed the Bride" (1942) • nowrap| "Reunion in France" (1942) • nowrap| "Above Suspicion" (1943) • nowrap| "Hollywood Canteen" (1944) • nowrap| "Mildred Pierce" (1945) • nowrap| "Humoresque" (1946) • nowrap| "Possessed" (1947) • nowrap| "Daisy Kenyon" (1947) • nowrap| "Flamingo Road" (1949) • nowrap| "It's a Great Feeling" (1949)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group2 = 1950-1959
list2 = nowrap| "The Damned Don't Cry!" (1950) • nowrap| "Harriet Craig" (1950) • nowrap| "Goodbye, My Fancy" (1951) • nowrap| "This Woman is Dangerous" (1952) • nowrap| "Sudden Fear" (1952) • nowrap| "Torch Song" (1953) • nowrap| "Johnny Guitar" (1954) • nowrap| "Female on the Beach" (1955) • nowrap| "Queen Bee" (1955) • nowrap| "Autumn Leaves" (1956) • nowrap| "The Story of Esther Costello" (1957) • nowrap| "The Best of Everything" (1959)
name = Joan Crawford
title = The 1940-1970 Films of Miss Joan Crawford
group3 = 1960-1969
list3 = nowrap| "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) • nowrap| "The Caretakers" (1963) • nowrap| "Strait-Jacket" (1964) • nowrap| "I Saw What You Did" (1965) • nowrap| "Berserk!" (1967)
group4 = 1970
list4 = nowrap| "Trog" (1970)