Daisy Kenyon (1947) on Netflix
Daisy Kenyon, a Manhattan commercial artist, is having an affair with Dan O'Mara, a married lawyer. She meets Peter Lapham, a widowed war veteran, and a hesitant courtship begins.
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Plot summary
Daisy Kenyon is a commercial artist in Manhattan having an affair with Dan O'Mara, a successful lawyer who is married and has two daughters. Dan breaks a date with her one night, so Daisy goes out with Peter Lapham, a widowed war veteran. Dan fights constantly with his wife Lucille about his job, their daughters and his cheating; that same night he brings Lucille and their thirteen-year-old daughter to the Stork Club, where Daisy and Peter are waiting for a table, and the pair leave. At the end of the evening Peter tells Daisy he loves her. He stands her up on their next date, then arrives unannounced and proposes. Daisy, still in love with Dan, agrees to marry Peter after a short and hesitant courtship, and she supports him in his postwar career.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Daisy Kenyon (1947)
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- Otto Preminger kept the set at 50 °F to ease Joan Crawford's hot flashes; Ruth Warrick recalled Crawford in tennis shorts and a thin blouse while she wore a fur coat, and Crawford gave long underwear to Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews as appeasement.
- Production Code administrators objected to the screenplay's "lack of regard for the sanctity of marriage," told the studio to stress the affair's moral wrongness, and forced Otto Preminger to show characters pouring alcoholic drinks that they never drink.
- Gene Tierney, who starred in Preminger's Laura, and Jennifer Jones were both considered for the part of Daisy Kenyon, in 1945 and 1946, before Joan Crawford was allowed to be borrowed from her Warner Bros. contract for the role.
- Chris Fujiwara's 2015 study of Otto Preminger's films calls Daisy Kenyon "possibly the first Hollywood film to allude to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II."
- Joan Crawford was 42 when cast, while the character of Daisy in Elizabeth Janeway's novel is 32; a make-up artist and shadowy cinematography were used to disguise Crawford's age.
- The original screenplay for Daisy Kenyon had a scene depicting a racist judge, but the film censor Joseph Breen did not allow it.
