If I lived with Joan Crawford, I would build a bomb shelter. And then, the second I saw one of her eyebrows start to twitch upward, I would hightail it to my shelter and stay there until I knew the coast was clear. Just one of her arched eyebrows could level civilizations.
It's not hard to guess who the queen bee of this film's title is. You can't have Joan Crawford in a movie called "Queen Bee" and not have her be it. If some other actress tried to take the title, Joan would literally rip her arms out of her sockets and bludgeon her with them, all the while pouring salt into her bloody stumps.
"Queen Bee" is an awful lot of fun. It's a 1950s melodrama with a twinge of noir, thanks mostly to the Oscar-nominated cinematography courtesy of Charles Lang. Lang has fun with shadows in this movie. Anytime Crawford is at her most duplicitous, he shoots her face in almost near dark. She's something else in this film, and god love her, she's so good and has so much screen presence that I ended up rooting for her. I think some other people were in this movie, but I can't really remember.
Sheila O'Brien received a random Oscar nomination for designing Crawford's gowns, looking pretty glorious in black and white.
Grade: A-
It's not hard to guess who the queen bee of this film's title is. You can't have Joan Crawford in a movie called "Queen Bee" and not have her be it. If some other actress tried to take the title, Joan would literally rip her arms out of her sockets and bludgeon her with them, all the while pouring salt into her bloody stumps.
"Queen Bee" is an awful lot of fun. It's a 1950s melodrama with a twinge of noir, thanks mostly to the Oscar-nominated cinematography courtesy of Charles Lang. Lang has fun with shadows in this movie. Anytime Crawford is at her most duplicitous, he shoots her face in almost near dark. She's something else in this film, and god love her, she's so good and has so much screen presence that I ended up rooting for her. I think some other people were in this movie, but I can't really remember.
Sheila O'Brien received a random Oscar nomination for designing Crawford's gowns, looking pretty glorious in black and white.
Grade: A-