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My friend Crystal from In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood is hosting the Joan Crawford Blogathon to honour one of her favourite actresses. The event started on July 28, 2016 and takes an end today, on July 30, 2016. Of course, I had to be part of it as, even if I haven’t seen many of h read more

When it comes to the definition of "movie star", almost no one fulfills that better than Joan Crawford. Her decades-long movie career, her poor background, her various real-life romances, the numerous stories & legends about her personal behavior--it's almost as if her entire life was written by read more

Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) may not be one of those films that turns up on Top 10 lists of pre-Code movies, but it’s one of my favorites. When I say it’s got it all, you can take that to the bank. Gratuitous shots of ladies in their lingerie. Financial ruin. Premarital sex. Bootlegging. Gangsters. read more

In 1936, Film Pictorial featured a loving photograph of Franchot and Joan on its cover and an article about the newlyweds inside. Source: my collection The article was written by Jerry Asher, an MGM publicity man and member of Franchot and Joan's inner circle of friends. Asher shared the conte read more

Share This! A wrong girl for the right side of the tracks. Director Michael Curtiz reunited with Mildred Pierce star Joan Crawford for 1949’s Flamingo Road, a Southern story with noir leanings full of politics and intrigue.  Thankfully the politics never take center stage and stay in the near backgr read more

FX is bringing classic movie buffs’ favorite sparring partners, Bette and Joan, to the screen. And the leads for the pair? Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange. How lucky are we? The show, aptly titled Feud, will also feature some amazing costars. The only downside? We have to wait until 2017. Jo read more

FX is bringing classic movie buffs’ favorite sparring partners, Bette and Joan, to the screen. And the leads for the pair? Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange. How lucky are we? The show, aptly titled Feud, will also feature some amazing costars. The only downside? We have to wait until 2017. Jo read more

Image Source: Amazon.com One of my favorite hobbies is collecting and reading the autobiographies of classic movie stars. Last week, I finished Melvyn Douglas' fantastic autobiography, See You at the Movies. Douglas focuses on his theater work and political activism over the details of his film ca read more

This is my first installment for the Summer Under the Stars blogathon hosted by Kristen at Journeys in Classic Film. TCM has this theme every August and I am so excited at this month’s lineup and really excited about the stars I chose to blog about. I picked three and first up is the amazing read more

Joan Crawford is the star for today! Below, you’ll find links to those participating and honoring Crawford (updated as they come in), as well as my own reviews of her work throughout the years.   Smitten Kitten Vintage Silver Screen Modes Spencer Jones – Hosted here JCF REVIEWS The read more

Today's star is Old Hollywood legend Joan Crawford. TCM is celebrating the career of Joan Crawford with 13 movies on Aug. 10. Here's what you need to know about one of the greatest movie stars of all time. FYI: TCM sometimes changes the air times and /or movies, so you can go to www.tcm.co read more

Joan Crawford on why her marriage to Franchot did not last. (To be fair though, Joan is taking quite a bit of the blame, when both Franchot and she contributed to the deterioration of their marriage.) "Franchot loved the theater and despised Hollywood, and I wasn't as nice to him, or as read more

Share This! At some time during 1936 the powers that were at MGM decided to take perhaps their biggest star of the time, Joan Crawford, and pull out all the stops in putting her in the highest quality production. The subject matter they picked was somewhat odd to say the least. For Ms. Crawford (tec read more

Resenha: Joan Crawford – Uma Homenagem, de Walter Machado Uma bíblia sobre Joan Crawford: esta foi a primeira coisa que me veio à cabeça quando peguei aquele livro com 750 páginas, mais de 200 figuras, pesando dois quilos (sim, eu coloquei na balança). Nunca havia visto uma obra tão read more

In her second film noir appearance – and her second film with the same name –  Joan Crawford starred in Possessed, released by Warner Bros., in 1947. It’s airing Thursday on TCM – I strongly recommend that you give it a look. The film opens with Crawford’s character, Louise Howell Graham, read more

This week Warner Archive has given us the gift of Joan Crawford on Blu-ray. As a woman haunted by mental illness and consumed with toxic love for self-centered homme fatale Van Heflin, she suffers deep, chin quivering anguish as only she could. The power of this film snuck up on me. I first watched read more

All of my role models were movie or TV stars. I’m sorry – no public servants, no servants of God, no philanthropists. What can I say? I’m shallow (but in a deep sort of way).  Somebody get this woman her coffee Growing up in the ‘60s, the perceived, went through ra read more

Joan Crawford, Knitting "I took my knitting along so I could keep my hands busy, because I was so nervous."  Joan Crawford As any knitter will tell you, there is a lot of comfort to be found in the repetitive motions of a pair of knitting needles and some yarn as you knit and purl your way th read more

Young and Reckless in 1935 Reckless MGM's 1935 musical melodrama is the story of a Broadway singer and dancer Mona Leslie (Jean Harlow). She and a rich playboy, Rob Harrison Jr. (Franchot Tone) marry impulsively. This is upsetting to his stuffy father. Turns out that Rob was engaged to Josephine read more

By Fritzi Kramer on June 4, 2014 in Article, Blog, Feature, Photoplay Cookbook Welcome to the first entry in my new series! I am going to be cooking my way through the 1929 Photoplay cookbook (recipes of the stars!) and you are invited to tag along. (I will be listing all the recipes I test on thi read more