Welcome to BlogHub: the Best in Veteran and Emerging Classic Movie Blogs
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
You can rate and share your favorite classic movie posts here.
Joan Crawford: Possessed, The Damned Don’t Cry, Harriet Craig
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Mar 9, 2023
In our ongoing exploration of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’s filmographies, here are three more films building on Crawford’s renewed critical success in the 1940s after Mildred Pierce (1945) and Humoresque (1946). Possessed opens with Joan Crawford wandering the city streets past cable read more
Possessed (1931): Joan Crawford and The “In” Crowd
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 27, 2020
We open up on the Acme Paper Box Co., which has a down-and-dirty industry strewn about its edges. If the people flooding out of the factory are any indication, this will be a dusty, grubby, little picture. Two of their employees are Al Manning (Wallace Ford) and Marian Martin (Joan Crawford). He read more
Possessed, or Cherry Ames Goes to Hell
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 30, 2015
From the first moments of 1947's Possessed, Joan Crawford sketches a character different from, deeper than, and profoundly stranger than any I've seen her play in what was even then her two decades on screen.
I'm embarrassed to say that until yesterday, I'd not seen this one. Somehow I vaguel read more
Possessed, or Cherry Ames Goes to Hell
Café Muscato Posted by Muscato on Jun 30, 2015
From the first moments of 1947's Possessed, Joan Crawford sketches a character different from, deeper than, and profoundly stranger than any I've seen her play in what was even then her two decades on screen.
I'm embarrassed to say that until yesterday, I'd not seen this one. Somehow I vaguel read more
Day 19 of Noirvember: Joan Crawford in Possessed (1947)
Shadows and Satin Posted by shadowsandsatin on Nov 19, 2014
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
New From Warner Archive: Joan Crawford Goes Mad in Possessed (1947)
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Nov 3, 2014
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
Possessed(1947) review
Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Posted by Joey on Jun 9, 2014
Possessed(1947) review “David” is the first word spoken from Louise Howell Graham’s (Joan Crawford) mouth as she is walking aimlessly around the streets walking up to strange men asking if they are this mysterious “David.” Louise is a mentally ill woman but how did read more
Possessed(1947) review
Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Posted by Joey on Jun 9, 2014
Possessed(1947) review “David” is the first word spoken from Louise Howell Graham’s (Joan Crawford) mouth as she is walking aimlessly around the streets walking up to strange men asking if they are this mysterious “David.” Louise is a mentally ill woman but how did read more
Possessed (1931)
Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on Nov 12, 2013
Marian Martin (Joan Crawford) is an unrepentant gold digger. She’s a factory worker from Erie, Pennsylvania, but she would love to be a high society dame. Her boyfriend Al Manning (Wallace Ford) is a fellow factory worker and is content to stay that way. But Marian knows her only real chance read more
Possessed (1947) (2)
Journeys in Classic Film Posted by on Jul 2, 2013
Day two of my week devoted to Joan Crawford continues with an exploration into mental illness and murder. Possessed starts out with a promising story of obsession and mental instability, but collapses under the heft of a murder mystery and love triangle with a leading man who lacks any necessary fla read more
Possessed (1947) (1)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on Feb 16, 2013
(Image: More Noir Posters)
Louise Howell (Joan Crawford) has landed herself in a psych ward under the care of Dr. Harvey Willard (Stanley Ridges). She seems frantic and constantly repeats the name “David,” but no one understands what sent her into such a breakdown…
…that is, read more
Possessed: The Life of Joan Crawford
Hollywood Revue Posted by Angela on Nov 15, 2010
Mention the words “Joan Crawford” and “book” in the same sentence and the first thing so many people will think of is, “No more wire hangers!” But on the other hand, it’s been my experience that many of those who don’t buy into the Mommie Dearest hyp read more