A devilish Southern woman, married to a man who despises her, manages to manipulate those around her under the guise of being kind. But, when her sister-in-law is engaged to be married to the woman's former lover and her husband starts up an affair with her cousin, visting from New York, things start to go awry and she sets a plan to destroy it all.
Joan Crawford
as Eva Phillips
Barry Sullivan
as Avery "Beauty" Phillips
John Ireland
as Judson Prentiss
Lucy Marlow
as Jennifer Stewart
Betsy Palmer
as Carol Lee Phillips
William Leslie
as Ty McKinnon
Fay Wray
as Sue McKinnon
Katherine Anderson
as Miss Breen
Tim Hovey
as Ted Phillips
Linda Bennett
as Trissa Phillips
Willa Pearl Curtis
as Miss George
Bill Walker
as Sam
