Carrie (1952)

Based on Theodore Dreiser’s first novel, Sister Carrie, a worked that shocked in its day, Wyler’s film tells the story of shy country girl (Jennifer Jones) who becomes materially successful in turn-of -the-century America by using her physical charms. Despite the title Wyler gives Laurence Olivier the principal focus as a middle-aged, wealthy restaurateur who gives up his home and family in Chicago to run off with the feckless Carrie in what is a middling but thanks to Olivier's performance reasonably touching demonstration of the truism that love is blind.

 

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