The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. 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.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
55 audience votes
Key crew
- Otto PremingerDirector
- David HertzScreenplay
- David RaksinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Joan CrawfordDaisy Kenyon
- Dana AndrewsDan O'Mara
- Henry FondaPeter Lapham
- Ruth WarrickLucille O'Mara
- Martha StewartMary Angelus
- Peggy Ann GarnerRosamund O'Mara
- Connie MarshallMarie O'Mara
- Nicholas JoyCoverly
- Art BakerLucille's Attorney
- Walter Winchellhimself
- Leonard Lyonshimself
- Mae MarshWoman Leaving Apartment (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
adulterylove trianglewar veteranartistlawyerlove affairdivorceextramarital affaircape codboatbuilding