Queen Bee

Queen Bee
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Movie Review: There's Something About Joan
Summary: 5 Stars

As you may have guessed Joan plays the "Queen Bee," Eva Phillips to perfection, stinging all the others to death so she can have the drones to herself. When the story picks up Eva has already wrecked two lives. Fay Wray plays the character that was Barry Sullivan's wife to be until the "Queen Bee" came along and played the oldest trick in the book. So now we have a husband trapped in marriage to a wife he does not love, and the woman he was to have married now a couple fries short of a happy meal. Poor Fay was really pathetic acting. She was so dazed, I half expected her to drool. Barry Sullivan played the drunk bitter husband Avery in superb fashion, equal to Fay's pain, but having had the opposite reaction to his wife's evil doings. So what is our Joan/Eva to do?? Enter John Ireland as Judson Prentiss, with a very young Betsy Palmer as Avery's younger sister Carol Lee in love with him. (Jason's Mom in "Friday The 13th" to the younger crowd.) Good for them, except he should have never gotten involved with the "Queen Bee." Does he really think he can get rid of her that easy and marry Carol Lee?? Think again fella.

You see, Eva wants what she can't have, and will do ANYTHING to get it. You have to see this for yourself! I am afraid Betsy Palmer gets off about as easy as she did in "Friday The 13th." Joan Crawford's character Eva, so caught up with herself in this movie actually calls a friend feigning illness to be alone with her prey. She dangles the phone chord around his neck ever so neatly to indicate he is all hers. (Truly one of my favorite scenes.) Her total lack of caring for the lives of her family, and those around her leads to quite a few shocks before the final curtain falls. When the movie ends, I truly felt bad for this family, and the young ones left behind. Yes, Eva managed to keep Avery by having the kids, and yes it would be possible for Joan to have kids that age! In fact two of her four adopted children were quite young at the time. Crawford is magic in this movie, still holding on to that leading lady status after thirty years in films! Joan was one in a million, and boy could she chew up that scenery!

Columbia, thank you for finally bringing this to DVD. They have been teasing us with the poster art for the movie as a Columbia Classic also available on DVD for quite a while now. I look forward to finally getting my hands on this gem.

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