When Carol and Jud's engagement is announced to Eva, Eva strongly hints at her former affair with Jud, and Carol commits suicide by hanging herself in the horse stable.Īvery catches nanny Miss Breen acting abusively towards the children, and fires her. ![]() Jud turns the light on and tells Eva that he is serious, and she warns him that he will ultimately be sorry for refusing her. ![]() Meanwhile, Jennifer witnesses this rendezvous from the top of the staircase and is shocked. Eva rejects this and begins to kiss him, but Judson stops kissing her after a few seconds once he realizes that he is falling back into her trap. That same night, Eva and Jud have a meeting in a darkened room where he tells her that their relationship and anything they had together was over because he is marrying Carol. Ted persistently has intense nightmares about a fatal car crash involving his parents. Jennifer refuses to believe such bad sentiments about Eva, and eventually becomes her putative personal assistant, and a caretaker to the young Phillips children, Tessa and Ted. Jennifer says she doesn't like to lie, and Avery says Eva would prefer to be lied to.Ĭarol tells Jennifer to watch out for Eva, and that she read a book about bees and feels that Eva is like a queen bee who stings all her competitors to death. Meanwhile, as tension builds among the various denizens of the mansion, Avery shoots Eva's terminally-ill dog, telling people to lie to Eva and say the dog had died naturally. Jennifer briefly dates Sue's suave brother Ty, but it doesn't last long. Jennifer learns that Eva stole Avery from house guest Sue McKinnon ( Fay Wray), who has been mentally disturbed ever since. A cousin, Jennifer Stewart ( Lucy Marlow), is pressured into moving in with the family, and she watches in horror as Eva maneuvers to prevent the marriage of Avery's sister Carol ( Betsy Palmer), an equestrian, to Avery's business manager Judson Prentiss ( John Ireland), who had secretly been involved with Eva in the past. ![]() The film tells the story about a Southern family dominated by a ruthless woman and the havoc her threats and intimidation cause to those around her.Įva Phillips ( Joan Crawford) dominates her Georgia mansion and her facially-scarred husband Avery ( Barry Sullivan), nicknamed "Beauty", an alcoholic mill-owner who hates her. The screenplay by MacDougall was based upon the 1949 novel The Queen Bee by Edna L. The film was directed by Ranald MacDougall and produced by Jerry Wald. Queen Bee is a 1955 American film starring Joan Crawford, John Ireland, Betsy Palmer, and Barry Sullivan.
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