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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 25, 2018 1:52:36 GMT
I think her best performance is as near-sighted dipsomaniac in "Humoresque"
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Post by movielover on Oct 25, 2018 1:54:58 GMT
Mildred Pierce
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Post by biker1 on Oct 25, 2018 2:22:11 GMT
top 5..
Mildred pierce
possessed
daisy Kenyon
Johnny guitar
humoresque
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Post by OldAussie on Oct 25, 2018 2:22:49 GMT
Grand Hotel - big name cast but JC stole the show.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 25, 2018 2:44:57 GMT
top 5.. Mildred piercepossessed daisy Kenyon Johnny guitar humoresque I forgot to put down "Johnny Guitar" - "I'm going to kill you." "I know. Only if I don't kill you first." |
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 25, 2018 2:48:42 GMT
Grand Hotel - big name cast but JC stole the show. 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. |
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 25, 2018 3:15:34 GMT
Grand Hotel - big name cast but JC stole the show. 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.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 25, 2018 3:27:54 GMT
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.
Oh, that's too funny! |
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 25, 2018 4:01:38 GMT
Strait Jacket
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Post by Terrapin Station on Oct 25, 2018 4:02:27 GMT
The one where she rose from the grave.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Oct 25, 2018 4:26:00 GMT
Susan and God
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Post by BATouttaheck on Oct 25, 2018 4:35:03 GMT
Grand Hotel
The Women
In both of which she became the character rather than being Joan Crawford pretending to be the character.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Oct 25, 2018 9:43:13 GMT
Faye Dunaway as Mommie Dearest
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Oct 25, 2018 11:31:55 GMT
Queen Bee  
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Post by politicidal on Oct 25, 2018 13:44:01 GMT
From what little I’ve seen her, I’ll say Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 25, 2018 14:57:32 GMT
Grand Hotel. Great film.
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Post by marianne48 on Oct 25, 2018 17:04:59 GMT
Not a Crawford fan, so I'll go with Baby Jane just because I like the scene in which Bette Davis serves her the rat (and after seeing Mommie Dearest, I figure it's the kind of meal she deserved in real life, too).
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 25, 2018 17:17:52 GMT
Though not in the OPs list, my favorite is "Rain" with a very young Walter Huston
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 25, 2018 23:14:03 GMT
I love her performance in "Strait Jacket" - Get a load of the way she lights her match! Classic! |
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 25, 2018 23:15:07 GMT
Really? I thought that movie was so boring. To each his own! |
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