Oscar winner Joan Crawford (Best Actress, 1945, Mildred Pierce) plays Harriet Craig, a sophisticated yet dictatoriaI woman who runs her household with an iron fist, driving her staff to distraction and treating her husband, Walter (WendeIl 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 aIso affects Clare's romantic affairs and Harriet's reIationship with her servants. |