Craig’s Wife

(Camera)Work: Harriet Craig (Rosalind Russell) zealously defends every inch of her elegant house - the only space of activity granted to her as a wife - from strangers. In the material world of precious things that surrounds her, even her husband plays little more than a decorative role. Harriet's controlling character and obsessive compulsiveness successively drive away the other residents. This fascinatingly subversive portrait of a housewife is an "intriguing character study by Golden Age Hollywood’s only unabashed openly lesbian filmmaker in the director’s guild, the great Dorothy Arzner.“ (Vaginal Davis)