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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 23:59:31 GMT
Maybe not her best performance, but I liked her in Sudden Fear.
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 26, 2018 4:00:29 GMT
The one where she rose from the grave. What movie did she rise from a grave? |
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Post by Archelaus on Oct 26, 2018 4:51:48 GMT
Mildred Pierce
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Post by Terrapin Station on Oct 26, 2018 16:39:35 GMT
The one where she rose from the grave. What movie did she rise from a grave? I was making a reference to this: |
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 26, 2018 16:43:04 GMT
What movie did she rise from a grave? I was making a reference to this: Oh, that is too funny, Terrapin Station! (Now, I can I've heard TWO songs by Blue Oyster Cult. I wonder if you might be able to speculate and figure out what the other BOC song that I've heard - and I've heard it about 1,000 times!)  |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Oct 26, 2018 16:55:47 GMT
I was making a reference to this: Oh, that is too funny, Terrapin Station! (Now, I can I've heard TWO songs by Blue Oyster Cult. I wonder if you might be able to speculate and figure out what the other BOC song that I've heard - and I've heard it about 1,000 times!) "Godzilla" most likely because that gets the most airtime now. They actually had a couple other hits that were just as popular back in the day--"Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Burnin' for You", but I don't know if either get played very often any longer. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 26, 2018 16:59:18 GMT
Oh, that is too funny, Terrapin Station! (Now, I can I've heard TWO songs by Blue Oyster Cult. I wonder if you might be able to speculate and figure out what the other BOC song that I've heard - and I've heard it about 1,000 times!) "Godzilla" most likely because that gets the most airtime now. They actually had a couple other hits that were just as popular back in the day-- "Don't Fear the Reaper" and "Burnin' for You", but I don't know if either get played very often any longer. That's the song the two girls are listening to on the car radio in the original "Halloween". Surely you remember? I don't think I've heard "Godzilla", but, yes, I have head "Burnin' for You", now that you mention it. It sounds a little bit like "Don't Fear the Reaper." |
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 26, 2018 17:03:16 GMT
Maybe not her best performance, but I liked her in Sudden Fear. She over-acted dreadfully in "Sudden Fear", but that's part of what made that movie so much fun! I would call "Sudden Fear" a top notch 'B' movie. Her character is so flawless. I can see Joan really projecting her own issues here. Phony with a capital 'P'. |
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Post by dirtypillows on Oct 31, 2018 6:44:30 GMT
No love for "Flamingo Road" or "Possessed"?
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 13, 2019 2:24:09 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.
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.
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