Crystal Shackleford — Three Strangers Character Profile

About Crystal Shackleford

The host who invites two strangers to her flat, orchestrating a lottery ticket purchase based on a Kwan Yin superstition. She manipulates her estranged husband's life to win him back, but is accidentally murdered by Arbutny using her own religious statue, ironically as their horse wins.

Crystal Shackleford — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Appears in

Three Strangers (1946)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (4)

• Crystal Shackleford — Social Deceptive Rival — Janet Elliott (Marjorie Riordan)

  Crystal manipulates Janet through calculated falsehoods.

• Crystal Shackleford — Family Spouse — David Shackleford (Alan Napier)

  Estranged married couple with unresolved marital conflict.

• Crystal Shackleford — Alliance Teammate — Johnny West (Peter Lorre)

  Co-investors united by a fortune-telling ritual.

• Crystal Shackleford — Alliance Teammate — Jerome K. Arbutny (Sydney Greenstreet)

  Co-investors bound by a shared superstition and lottery pact.

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More characters from Three Strangers

• Jerome K. Arbutny (Sydney Greenstreet)
• Johnny West (Peter Lorre)
• Icey Crane (Joan Lorring)
• David Shackleford (Alan Napier)
• Bertram Fallon (Robert Shayne)
• Janet Elliott (Marjorie Riordan)
• Mr. Giesing (uncredited) (Norman Ainsley)
• Mrs. Proctor (Doris Lloyd)
• Man on Park Bench (uncredited) (Alec Craig)
• Stockbroker (Voice) (uncredited) (Cyril Delevanti)
• Drunken Stranger (uncredited) (Benny Burt)
• Senior Clerk (Clifford Brooke)