What is your favorite Joan Crawford performance?

What is your favorite Joan Crawford performance? Jul 13, 2019 2:24:09 GMT

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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 13, 2019 2:24:09 GMT

Oct 25, 2018 3:15:34 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

Oct 25, 2018 2:48:42 GMT dirtypillows said:

She was lovely in "Grand Hotel". Pauline Kael, again, was very astute when she said about JC "and there is a sexy minx in it by the name of Joan Crawford, who bears only a passing resemblance by the later zombie of the same name."

There is something to Joan Crawford's transformation. She did get very hard later on. Kael actually pin pointed it and said it started in 1934 with "Forsaking All Others", when Joan began to slowly change and harden. Pauline Kael was so perceptive.

The booze didn't help. If I recall, I think Christina said her mother didn't drink at all at the beginning, but the demon liquor eventually got a hold of her. I wonder if she snorted as well. I don't recall that being mentioned.

Like you have mentioned Mr. Dirty, Crawford did work hard for her image, but so would many others in the industry. Davis herself included. Crawford had to work hard to prove herself too, perhaps because of her reputation of not being that great to be around, well in her later years as was proven. Davis held her head higher longer and with more reverence. Oh the irony, forsaking all others, that is what Crawford did to herself and she was a transparent phony. These titles and tag lines for her art, appear to have eventually imitated in her life. Quite frankly, and I know this is a very judgemental streak in me, but I really don't believe Crawford is worthy of any praise, even if she was a mentally sick woman.

I doubt that Crawford did any snort. That just doesn't seem like something she would have done. Booze and prescription pills would be about the extent of it for her. I can't picture a lot of old Hollywood indulging in something like cocaine. I bet even Elizabeth Taylor didn't do much stronger than pot and pills. Though Tallulah Bankhead was a heavy abuser of illicit drugs and she made no bones about it.