Joan's Stuff
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20th Anniversary Countdown! Sign the 20th Anniversary Guestbook!
For the next 13 weeks, from 12/24/23 to 3/16/24, I'll be giving away a free Joan-gift per week to THANK YOU for 20 years of your readership of, and contributions to, this website. Then, leading up to the 14th week, I'll open a $5-per-ticket raffle for a drawing to win one Grand Prize, to be announced on 3/23/24---Joan's birthday and the 20th anniversary of this site.
Week 7 gift (2/03): 1951 ad for Peter Pan bras (in 11 x 14 plastic frame) Winner: Congrats to Sandi L. of California!
Joan Crawford Best Message Board (October 2020 to present)
LATEST SITE UPDATES [in last month]
TCM FILM SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY (times US Eastern) Wed. 2/7: 3:00am -- Our Blushing Brides Sun. 2/25: 12:45am -- Mildred Pierce
UPCOMING EVENTS: *Lypsinka:
Toxic Femininity --- Lypsinka channels
both Joan and Judy in their own voices. *NYC's Film Forum will feature Johnny Guitar on Sunday, February 11 (part of its 30-film SAPPH-O-RAMA series). * NYC's Angelika Film Center will have two showings of Mildred Pierce on Monday, February 19. * The Smithsonian in DC will feature "Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell" from March 1, 2024, to January 5, 2025.
2/07/24
LETTERS: 1957: July to a friend re travels; and October to friend/publicist Dore Freeman re travels and talking to press. 1958: To a friend re travels and Bob Hope's TV show. 1961: To Dore Freeman re the Miss America pageant. 1962: To an Australian fan re plans for Baby Jane. 1967: To Dore Freeman re Pepsi travels.
2/05/24
FILMS: Female on the Beach -- A UK lobby card with Jan Sterling.
CELEB LETTERS TO JOAN: 1966 from Henry Fonda.
2/01/24
FILMS: Added my review of 1950's Harriet Craig. (If you have your own review of any Joan film to share on this site, please send it in!)
1/31/24
1946: Humoresque -- Screen shots with glasses, one (texting during the Big Concert) and two. 1951: At Warners with California Lt. Gov. Goodwin Knight planning the upcoming "Our America Program" (candid + newspaper clipping; note the E pluribus unum dress!) 1955: Queen Bee -- On the set with Lucy Marlow and Betsy Palmer, and a film still with Palmer.
1/29/24
1936: Love on the Run -- A film still with Clark Gable, and publicity with Gable shot by Hurrell. 1937: Some sort of Hollywood strike action ("mouvement de greve") going on here, with Joan (looking unhappy in her working-class fur), Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Robert Montgomery. (Includes a caption in French, which I can't read; if you know French, can you send me the translation?) 1942: Press photo (with crop marks) of Joan with new husband Phillip Terry on the set of Reunion in France. (Includes press caption with info about their elopement.)
ART/MAGS: A color page from Cinema Arts (July 1937) featuring an oil portrait of Joan by Azadia Newman.
1/27/24
1931: Candid solo, and small posed shot on lawn with Monroe Owsley. 1934: Sadie McKee -- A film still with Franchot Tone.
FILMS: French pressbooks for West Point and Law of the Range. Swedish pressbook cover for Sadie McKee. Iowa theater calendar featuring No More Ladies.
1/24/24
1966 from Silent star Rod La Rocque. 1969 from writer Anita Loos. 1970 from writer/director Garson Kanin. 1971 from writer/director Joshua Logan. 1971 from broadcaster Lowell Thomas. 1971 from actor Sir John Mills. 1971 from actress Jeanette Nolan.
TELEVISION: A 2017 essay from the New York Times: What "Feud" Misses About Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and the Art of Movies. (Also added this link to the Encyclopedia: Feud entry.)
1/22/24
1965: A film still from I Saw What You Did with John Ireland. 1967: At gala for farewell to the RMS Queen Mary (photo by Ron Galella).
LETTERS: To Miami Herald writer George Bourke. 1964: January. 1965: November. 1966: December.
1/21/24
TELEVISION: The Joan Crawford Show This potential show featured Joan as a lawyer "trying to make it in a man's world" and was never produced, though there were heavy negotiations between Joan and Screen Gems from 1960 thru 1961. Working titles for the show included "Ellen Fox, Attorney-at-Law" and "The Silver Fox." In 1961, Gene Roddenberry (of later Star Trek fame) wrote a teleplay for the pilot episode titled "A Man's World." Click HERE to see various pre-production docs made available on eBay as of January 2024.
1/18/24
1952: A Sudden Fear film still. 1955: Candid on train.
LETTERS: To Miami Herald writer George Bourke. (Joan would go on to a 20-year correspondence with him; more to follow.) 1953: Generic RE Torch Song. 1955: One (handwritten note at bottom) and two (now "George" instead of "Mr. Bourke").
1/14/24
FILMS: Added my review of 1950's The Damned Don't Cry. (If you have your own review of any Joan film to share on this site, please send it in!)
1/11/24
FILMS: Added my review of 1949's It's a Great Feeling. (If you have your own review of any Joan film to share on this site, please send it in!)
1/09/24
1936: Publicity silhouette with horse by Clarence Sinclair Bull. 1938: Publicity for Mannequin. 1940: Strange Cargo -- With Clark Gable, one and two. 1942: They All Kissed the Bride -- On the set: In PJs with Cliff Edwards, and with Melvyn Douglas.
FILMS: They All Kissed the Bride -- A color US magazine ad and a Danish program cover.
LETTERS: 1936 to a fan re a Jane Withers fan club and Gorgeous Hussy.
1/07/24
FILMS: Added my review of 1949's Flamingo Road. (If you have your own review of any Joan film to share on this site, please send it in!)
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