Now we are at the scene where the ladies are coming out from the dinner party. Finally, Joan has a wonderful hair style that suits her to a T. I love Joan Crawford and I've never seen this movie before; however, I've heard of it. It's on TCM right now and Joan looks wonderful!!!!!
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Yeah, I would say that this role is probably truer to Joan's own life than anything else she ever did! I can just picture Harriet screaming "No wire hangers!!"
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i AM OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE SEEN THIS ON THE STAGE WITH TALLULAH BANKHEAD
IT WAS CALLED CRAIG'S WIFE--TALLULAH WAS MAGNIFICENT.
Wow, I also just saw this on TCM for the first time, and was almost expecting Joan Crawford to start screaming about the wire hangers, too! Her performance was so powerful and convincing that I had shivers with every underhanded evil thing she did. It just felt too real (yikes- maybe I've seen "Mommie Dearest" too many times?)! And it was very sad, too.
It's more likely that Christina borrowed heavily from this movie and that's why it "seem" so true to Joan's life. Joan did a great job. Christina did a bad one.
"If they take away my Miss Charlotte I'm never gonna sees her again. I knows it, I knows it!"
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christina took from most of crawfords late 40s and 50s work for "mommie dearest". the book is like a patchwork of joan characters and dialogue.
"they should give nicole kidman an oscar for being able to show any emotion after THAT much botox".
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Vincent Sherman--the esteemed director of this film--about 12 years ago and I asked him if Joan had enough self awareness to recognize herself in this role. He laughed and said he didn't think she did at all, that she would come to him with questions about how best to play a certain scene that he felt could have been lifted from her own life. He did say that Joan, unlike Harriet, had a sharp sense of humor and could be much more feminine and vulnerable, but when it came to her house, the two were sisters under the skin.
shareCLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIRE, BRING ME THE AXE!
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
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