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Carrie is a 1952 American drama film based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Directed by William Wyler, the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood. Eddie Albert played Charles Drouet.
Carrie: Directed by William Wyler. With Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins, Eddie Albert. A young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love.
- (2.7K)
- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1952-08-14
Twenty-four years before Sissy Spacek turned prom night into hell on Earth, Jennifer Jones starred as a very different Carrie in William Wyler's 1952 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's controversial novel Sister Carrie. It was a role she and husband David O. Selznick fought fiercely to win, though in the end it would come at great personal cost.
- William Wyler, Herb Coleman
- Laurence Olivier
When beautiful young Carrie Meeber (Jennifer Jones) travels from her small hometown to Chicago in the 1890s, she meets well-off traveling salesman Charles Drouet (Eddie Albert) on the train.
- (7)
- Jennifer Jones
- William Wyler
- Drama
William Wyler's Carrie (1952), based on Theodore Dreiser's novel, takes us on a rollercoaster ride of emotions as innocent small town girl Jennifer Jones learns the hardship of life in the big city when she gets courted by married man Laurence Olivier.
- (1K)
- Paramount
- William Wyler
Overview. Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that is, until a traveling salesman named Drouet steps into her life and changes her outlook.
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Carrie received two Academy Award nominations: Costume Design, and Best Art Direction. Carrie is a 1952 American drama film based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Directed by William Wyler, the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood.
