Joan Crawford Harriet Craig 1950 Movie Stills Lot of 3 Photos

Lot of 3, Joan Crawford HARRIET CRAIG (1950) stills Wendell Corey, K.T. Stevens. USE BUY-IT-NOW and I will upgrade to PRIORITY shipping at no extra cost for Christmas! This lot of photos will sell as a group. The first picture is just one of the group, please open and look at each still in this lot to measure the high value of all of them together. They would look great framed on display in your home theater or to add to your portfolio or scrapbook! Some dealers by my lots to break up and sell separately at classic film conventions at much higher prices than my low minimum. A worthy investment for gift giving too! PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILE ALL PICTURES LOAD After checking out this item please look at my other unique silent motion picture memorabilia and Hollywood film collectibles! COMBINE SHIPPING COST AND SAVE $ See a gallery of pictures of my other auctions HERE! These photographs are original photo chemical created pictures (vintage, from original Hollywood studio release) and not a copies or reproductions. DESCRIPTION: “Harriet Craig, the 1950 Vincent Sherman romantic melodrama ("What was Harriet Craig's lie?"; "One of the five best pictures of the year"; "'A woman's a fool to depend entirely on a man's love.' -Harriet Craig"; "Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play, 'Craig's Wife', by George Kelly"; about a controlling woman who ruins the lives those around her) starring Joan Crawford (in the title role as Harriet Craig), Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson, Allyn Joslyn, William Bishop, K.T. Stevens, and Viola Roache.” CONDITION: These quality and vintage stills are in Near MINT to physical condition, with some light scuffing, edge bumps and in the last still small creases in the border. I can’t prove which release these stills were used, original, re-release or re-strike. But they do have that single hair sharpness, great greyscale and detail found in an original! (SEE PIX) Important Added Info: Note that while these great stills have nothing on it to indicate that it is not from 1940, we think that there is clearly a possibility that it could be from one of the many 1940, or later re-releases of this classic movie. SO PLEASE DO NOT BID ON IT UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT THE STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT IT IS ACTUALLY FROM A RE-RELEASE. And they are NOT cheap dupes or recently printed copies. They are worth an average of $10 each but since I have recently acquired two huge collections from lifelong movie buffs who collected for decades… I need to offer these choice items for sale on a first come, first service basis to the highest bidder. SHIPPING: Domestic shipping would be USPS Ground Advantage (includes $100 insurance) and well packed in plastic, with several layers of cardboard support/protection and delivery tracking. USE BUY-IT-NOW and I will upgrade to PRIORITY shipping at no extra cost for Christmas! The USPS has removed FIRST CLASS from eBay’s postage label system. (Darn it!) International shipping depends on the location, and the package would weigh close to a half a pound with even more extra ridge packing. PAYMENTS: Please pay via eBay unless you want to combine shipping with multiple lots, then just ask me for an adjustment to the shipping expense and we both save! All of my items are unconditionally guaranteed. E-mail me with any questions you may have. This is Larry41, wishing you great movie memories and good luck… BACKGROUND: “ “"Harriet Craig" started out as a stage success – obviously, it struck familiar chords – and saw at least one previous film version (Craig's Wife, starring Rosalind Russell). Remade in 1950 with Joan Crawford commandeering the part of the domestic despot, the movie takes on a dimension that helped define camp. It also offers an unadulterated middle-period glimpse of the controlling monsters she had begun (Mildred Pierce, Humoresque) and continued (Torch Song, Johnny Guitar, Queen Bee) to play on film. (And, if there is a sliver of verity in her adopted daughter Cristina's report from the front lines, such roles paralleled her off-screen personality). It's a parable about the dangers of social ascendancy, an illustration of Thorstein Veblen's view of the affluent wife as agent of conspicuous consumption. Joan Crawford's Harriet Craig has it all: a husband in a grey flannel suit on his way up the corporate ladder (Wendell Corey), and so can buy her what she most desires: property and position. She's obsessed with who does and does not fit in with what she refers to as `our set' as she strikes poses in her perfect (and perfectly dull) upper-middle-class abode. That her only interest in her husband is as a meal ticket is revealed by her avoiding her wifely obligations under the pretext that bearing children would be dangerous. But she's not content to leave him be, maybe to enjoy a little action on the side; what might the other members of their `set' think? She craves total control. When he's about to go out of town on a business trip, thus slithering out at least temporarily from under her oppressive thumb, she intervenes, lying to his boss that he's a compulsive gambler. Finally, of course, the worm turns.... But, in the closing shot, when Crawford regally ascends her curved staircase alone among the splendor of her possessions, you wonder who's really won after all. This soapish melodrama remains surprisingly riveting. Perhaps it's the extra touch of authenticity Crawford brings to her portrayal (Mary Tyler Moore played a later version of this upscale shrew in Ordinary People; then of course there's always Martha Stewart). The movie preserves an uncanny sense of upward mobility in America, circa midcentury, a lugubrious self-importance that has not, alas, vanished from the land.”