"A lone female on the beach is a kind of a target "” a bait, you might say"¦" FEMALE ON THE BEACH 1955 The immortal Joan Crawford is Lynn Markham, a widow who longs to be left alone at her beach house, where the previous tenant, Eloise Crandall (Judith Evelyn) had fallen to her death. … Continue reading From The Vault: Female on The Beach (1955)