Daisy Kenyon stars
Joan Crawford as the eponymous heroine, a Manhattan commercial artist. Daisy is torn between two men: a handsome, married attorney (
Dana Andrews) and an unmarried
Henry Fonda.
Deciding to do the "right thing", Daisy marries Fonda, but carries a
torch for the dashing Andrews. When the lawyer divorces his wife, he
calls upon Daisy and tries to win her back. She is very nearly won over,
but her husband isn't about to give up so easily. Both men argue over
Daisy, who is so distraught by the experience that she nearly has a
fatal automobile accident. In the end, Daisy realizes that she truly
loves Fonda, and gives Andrews his walking papers.
Daisy Kenyon is given a contemporary slant with a subplot about child abuse (in a
Joan Crawford film!); and, in one scene set at New York's Stork Club, several celebrities (
Walter Winchell,
Leonard Lyons,
John Garfield) make unbilled cameo appearances.
