Craig's Wife

Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.

Cast

Rosalind Russell

as Harriet Craig

John Boles

as Walter Craig

Billie Burke

as Mrs. Frazier

Jane Darwell

as Mrs. Harold

Dorothy Wilson

as Ethel Landreth

Alma Kruger

as Miss Austen

Thomas Mitchell

as Fergus Passmore

Raymond Walburn

as Billy Birkmire

Elisabeth Risdon

as Mrs. Landreth

Robert Allen

as Gene Fredericks

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This isn't one of Rosalind Russell's better outings, but she still dominates the proceedings as the over-bearing and rather shallow "Harriet". She has come from an ordinary background and married the doting "Walter" (John Boles) so she can have the perfect, sterile, home. Next door, "Mrs. Frazier" (...

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