Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Joan Crawford
as Daisy Kenyon
Dana Andrews
as Dan O'Mara
Henry Fonda
as Peter Lapham
Ruth Warrick
as Lucille O'Mara
Martha Stewart
as Mary Angelus
Peggy Ann Garner
as Rosamund O'Mara
Connie Marshall
as Marie O'Mara
Nicholas Joy
as Coverly
Art Baker
as Lucille's Attorney
Walter Winchell
as himself
Leonard Lyons
as himself
Mae Marsh
as Woman Leaving Apartment (uncredited)
