Daisy Kenyon

Daisy Kenyon

1947 · 99 min · EN · 6.7 (41 votes)
Dir. Otto Preminger · Starring Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick, Martha Stewart, Peggy Ann Garner · Music David Raksin

"I DON'T BELONG TO ANY MAN"!

DramaRomance

Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

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A deeply felt, emotionally charged drama of a woman torn between two men. It's a portrait of longing and the difficult choices that haunt us, steeped in a classic, sophisticated Hollywood style.

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