Craig’s Wife

In Craig’s Wife (1925), Kelly shifted his vision to the upper middle class and abandoned comedy to write a savage drama of a woman who sacrifices her husband to her possessions, ultimately losing both. Kelly wrote several other plays, but none was a popular success. He…

…an adaptation of a popular play by George Kelly, Arzner tried to create some sympathy for the cold, domineering title character (played by Rosalind Russell), who is less interested in her husband (John Boles) than in maintaining the gleam of her showcase domicile. Modern feminist viewers have interpreted the film…