Daisy flees. Her car skids on the icy road and rolls over. She walks 2 miles through the snow to the cottage, where Dan and Peter are playing cards. She wants both of them to leave. After a few words, Peter goes out to the waiting cab. Daisy is appalled to learn that Dan gave up the children to obtain his divorce and admits that she stopped loving him a long time ago. Dan goes out to the cab. Peter steps out, saying that he is going home, to his wife, and returns to the house, where he and Daisy toast their future and embrace. Cast 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 O'Mara's attorney Newspaper reporters Walter Winchell, Leonard Lyons, and Damon Runyon, along with actor John Garfield, make cameo appearances in the film. Production The rights to Elizabeth Janeway's novel were purchased by 20th Century Fox for $100,000 in 1945. Joan Crawford had intended to buy the rights for herself, but failed to bid before Fox. An unfinished first draft of the screenplay was written in August by Margaret Buell Wilder and Ted Sills before Hertz was brought in to write a second draft. Ring Lardner Jr., who had written the script for Laura, was hired to revise Hertz's draft in 1947. The Motion Picture Production Code administrators, with whom Preminger often sparred, took issue with the screenplay's "lack of regard for the sanctity of marriage." The studio was advised to avoid referencing explicit sexual intercourse, and to emphasize the moral wrongness of the relationship between the characters of Daisy and Dan. Preminger was also forced to work around the PCA's concerns over alcohol - characters pour alcoholic drinks in several scenes, but never drink them. The code administrators also suggested that the divorcing characters Dan and Lucille reunite at the end of the film. Gene Tierney, who had starred in Preminger's 1944 film Laura, and Jennifer Jones, who had been considered for Tierney's role in that film, were both considered for the part of Daisy Kenyon in 1945 and 1946, respectively, before Crawford was allowed to be "borrowed" from her contract with Warner Bros. The casting of Crawford was somewhat